Tag Credit Cards

What do we love about credit?

What else is there to love about credit? How about credit history. It might go without saying that the longer an account is open the more it helps. Your credit history is 15% of your credit score and it is an average of your open and active accounts both installment and revolving.

Credit Card Utilization

What is credit card utilization and how can it impact your credit score? Your revolving accounts make up 30% of your credit score in the mortgage FICO credit scoring model. That is almost one third of your score.

Change in Public Records Reporting

Change in Public Records Reporting   What is a Public Record? Tax Liens, Judgments and Bankruptcies are credit items that are on file with the government. These can report on the credit report and have a severe detrimental impact to…

Detrimental Errors

Detrimental Errors on your credit report FACT: 70% to 80% of consumer credit reports have errors. The FCC did a study and found that 7 out of 10 credit reports have some sort of detrimental error(s). In addition, a new…

Importance of Credit Cards

Importance of Credit Cards   If you do not own a credit card or revolving account, what you read below may be the most important thing you read to help raise your credit scores.   We recommend that you have…

Credit Coaching Guide – Part 2

Credit Coaching Guide – Part 2 Experts say the average time required to rebuild one’s credit to the point at which you can be accepted for a major credit card or small loan is approximately two years. Here are some…

Finding Your Score Pt 1

Finding Your Score Pt 1 You would think that finding out what your credit score is would be easy.  In a way it is, but only because I’ve done my research and you won’t have to spend time surfing websites…