How Long Late Payments Stay On Your Credit Report

Have you ever stressed out because you made a late payment on a loan or a credit card? You’d be surprised at how many people who are just a few days late on their payment, become instantly worried that their tardiness

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Posted on May 10th, 2010

How To Raise Your Credit Score By 100 Points Within 90 Days

Are you making ineffective attempts to raise your credit score? Would you really like to learn some foolproof methods to change your credit for the better?

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Posted on May 7th, 2010

What Not To Say When Disputing Your Credit

If you need to write a dispute letter to credit agencies, the Federal Trade Commission has a very good example of one posted on their website that you can use as a template. If you write a poor letter, it does not mean that you won’t get some results

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Posted on May 1st, 2010

Cheap 3 in 1 Credit Report

Creditors need to look into your credit report to gain a verifiable understanding of your financial situation. Along with your personal information, a credit report contains an analysis of all the details pertaining to your financial condition.

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Posted on Apr 25th, 2010

Writing A Bad Credit Repair Letter

Credit holders, for various reasons, send credit repair letters to credit reporting agencies, collectors, or creditors. People write these letters for different reasons

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Posted on Apr 13th, 2010

Activities That Can Hurt Your Credit Score

There are several number of things you do that can hurt your credit score. However, most of these actions that you take are seemingly harmless. Here are three:

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Posted on Apr 10th, 2010

Building Up Your Personal Credit Rating

The only measure of risk credit lenders learn about you prior to giving you a line of credit is your personal credit rating. If your credit rating is poor, you’ll likely not get the loans you want.

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Posted on Mar 29th, 2010

You May Never Own A Home Again With Bad Credit

As a Loan Officer, I have helped many individuals obtain homes as part of my profession duties. From my experience, I can foresee difficult times ahead for those who have bad credit. Recent news stories are misguided in their condemnation of people with poor and bad credit as the cause of the current housing crisis. [...]

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Posted on Mar 1st, 2010

County Court Judgment (CCJs)

Lenders generally use the information from credit reporting agencies to determine the risk of a borrower when he/she applies for credit. Credit cards are essential in today’s society and when managed well are a great tool

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Posted on Feb 26th, 2010

Credit Card Debt – What Happens If You Do Not Pay?

You didn’t really expect this to happen. It just didn’t seem like a lot of money at time, but a couple months have passed and when you look at your credit card statement it dawns on you that you’re in serious trouble and there seems to be no way out.

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Posted on Feb 14th, 2010

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