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The knowledge we gain from word of mouth is often peppered with a lot of credit score myths, misunderstandings, and lack of clarity. It’s easy to give in to them, forget to recognize advantages, and live oblivious to the provisions offered by various services. Credit cards are not immune to this.
Sure, it’s important that you maintain a good credit score, but at the same time, it’s highly likely that you’re under a lot of assumptions regarding the factors that influence them.
How you use your credit is an essential part of your financial history. Undeniably, lenders and credit card issuers use your credit score to determine whether or not you are qualified for a loan. Besides that, landlords may also use your credit report to know if you will be a good tenant. Even some of the employers also use this number to determine if you are good in financial decisions.
With that said, you should maintain a good credit score and or at least prevent bad credits. To help you get started, here are five doable ways you can do to manage your credit history.
This is an interesting topic for me to write. I am almost obsessed with my credit score. I check my latest score every now and then, if not every week. In 2016, the average credit score was 699. This is in the “good” range. But what is considered a bad credit score?
While there are different credit tiers we all know about, do they mean you don’t qualify for loans, credit cards, a house, a car, and other necessities? It’s important you know what your credit score means to your financial health.
There are many reasons that people fall into debt. It could be a job loss, a sudden illness or the mishandling of money. Unfortunately, once you get overwhelmed with your debt it can become difficult to make your monthly payments on time.
What usually follows are a few late payments and then a few missed payments. This can present quite a challenge to restore your good name. The potential cost of having bad credit can be huge unless you follow these steps to recover from bad credit.
Trying to gain better control over your finances can be a great goal to have. While all the different factors that affect how you save, borrow, and make money can seem complex when you’re starting out, you can easily become well educated about your finances by breaking up the knowledge you need into smaller chunks.
Understanding your credit score can be a great place to start. Having better credit can come with a huge set of advantages that can potentially help improve all of your finances. Here are the basics of what your credit score means and how you can improve it if needed.
This is a guest post from one of the readers, who wants to be anonymous.
Having a good credit score wasn’t always on the top of my priority list when I was in my early 20s. I never had an immaculate score, but it also wasn’t too shabby. I could have access to almost any type of financing: credit cards, car loans, and even a mortgage. I always paid my bills on time but I typically carried over some of the balance to the next month.
Your credit score is of utmost importance when you plan to apply for a business loan. Knowing how to improve will help you succeed in your application.
In the business world, the term credit score is just a common word to hear. What is a credit score then?
This is actually an expression, a numeric expression to be particular that evaluates the credit history and performance of a particular person or business. It is typically found and accessed in different credit bureau. It is in fact considered as a confidential file.
Knowing your credit score is very important as it greatly affects your financial ability, but for some reason no regulation exists that gives you the right to know it for free. Your credit score affects the interest rate you get when applying for a loan or even affect your eligibility for one. It also affects your fees why applying for financial services such as credit cards. Even your housing association, where you rent or your employer might want to verify your credit report and credit score. For Americans, having a good credit score makes things less costlier and more attainable.
Your credit report, which contains a lot of information about you and your financial whereabouts and it even required to calculate your credit score, is available for free according to the Fair Credit Reporting Act which allows you to order a credit report once per year from all 3 of the nation’s credit reporting companies (TransUnion Experian and Equifax). Each company uses a different method of calculating your credit score and each compiles its own credit report.
Welcome to the world of young adult finances, readers! After yesterday’s post on the need of retirement planning in early 20’s , this is an excellent followup post. Here I’ll do less talking and let the infographic speak about what I wanted to say.
Early 20’s or late 20’s whenever you join in to work force is the best time to start financial planning. The other day I was talking to an intern in our office. He’s just out of college. To him the life’s all about spending money, partying, seeing places. I tried convincing him and he seemed interested to know more. I didn’t tell him about my blog but we planed to meet again for next round of talk.
Perhaps I got my first mentee whom I can teach about best practices of personal finance. He’s one of the typical generation X population. Years ahead of them before retirement, they don’t care. perhaps we were like the same when we were in our 20’s.
Previously I wrote multiple articles on credit score, including How to improve credit score. This guest post from Joshua may force you to think about credit scores from a different perspective. Enjoy the post!
Hey everyone, I’m Joshua Rodriguez…you may remember me from my debut post a month or so ago. Today, is my 3rd post here and going strong!!! I love the comments you all leave so, please keep them up.
