Credit Coaching Guide – Part 1 Don’t despair if you find yourself with a less than desirable credit score and credit history. You are human and can make mistakes. It’s natural. The key to this is recognize that your spending…
Finding Your Score Pt 2 If you want to know your actual credit score, you will usually have to purchase it. This can be done in a few ways. You can get it from one of the three major credit…
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…
Paying Down Your Credit Cards Credit card debt can hurt our credit scores as well as cost a lot of money in interest. High credit card debt also leads to high debt to income ratios or DTI, and high DTI…
All About FICO (con’t) There are about 100 different ways to compute a credit score. As we have discussed FICO is the main source lenders use to derive a credit score. FICO has 49 different algorithms that are split across different…
All About FICO Back in the 1960’s, a company called Fair Isaac devised a unique system to determine the creditworthiness of people who apply for loans. Through a complicated mathematical computation, they were able to study a person’s credit history…
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The difference between identity theft and identity errors A popular credit topic these days is identity theft, and it is definitely a problem. Many people suffer when their personal information is stolen and credit is opened in their name. What so…
Credit Account Categories Credit accounts are divided into five categories: real estate, installment, revolving, collection and other. Here is a better description of each category: Real Estate: First and second mortgage loans on your home. Installment: Accounts comprised of fixed…
Intro to Credit History The next section is your credit history. Sometimes, the individual accounts are called trade lines. Each account will include the name of the creditor and the account number, which may be scrambled for security purposes. You…
