There are a lot of factors that go into making up your credit score, from how often you pay your bills on time to the age of your various accounts. When you’re trying to clean up your credit report, knowing which areas to focus on can make the credit repair process much easier and go [...]
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(Especially if you’re not getting a bonus this year) When you’re working towards complete credit repair, one thing that’ll make the journey easier is learning how to stretch your purse strings as far as they’ll go. Finding debt relief is an important part of credit repair, and nothing can help you achieve that better than [...]
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Wondering what’s keeping you from landing that dream apartment you’ve had your eye on all this time? It could be your credit history. What went wrong? Maybe you have student loans that were defaulted, a collection or two in your history, or are just in need of credit repair in general. Whatever the reason, you [...]
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Credit repair is serious business. I’m sure you already know that, and so do thousands of companies vying for your bottom dollar online. Some of them make pretty far-out promises – a quick look at some of the hits for “credit repair companies” on Google brings up results for some companies that guarantee permanent results [...]
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This Week in Credit News Credit Swaps on Bank of America, Goldman Sachs Jump on S&P Cut “The cost to protect debt issued by U.S. banks from Bank of America Corp. to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. jumped after Standard & Poor’s lowered their long-term credit ratings as it revised criteria for the banking industry.” A [...]
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With unemployment rates in America hitting a near all-time high, the number of applications being received per position is skyrocketing. Couple the unemployment rate with the increasing popularity of employers running credit & background checks on potential employees and the situation is creating a Catch-22 for many job seekers. This is because your credit profile [...]
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People looking for credit repair options always appreciate tips to help them save money in any way they can (especially now that we’re heading into the holiday shopping season full speed ahead) so they can improve their credit scores quickly and reduce their debts as much as possible. In the interest of helping those looking [...]
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Most people do all they can when it comes to credit repair. They pay their bills and try to keep their credit cards from making the wrong charges, but for some reason, their reports and scores never quite seem to work out as well as they hope. To help you make some sense out of [...]
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This post might not have much to do with credit repair services, but I thought we’d cover an area of personal finance often left unchecked. It seems like every other day that I come home from a long day at the office to find at least two cards that proclaim in huge, bold letters “WE [...]
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Used to be a fella was always havin’ to carry cash around in his wallet if he was intendin’ on buyin’ somethin’ for himself while he was out ‘n about his business. Nowadays, no one really even uses cash anymore, cuz they all got debit cards now. Of course, if your aim is to improve [...]
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