Credit Repair

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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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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Say you’re in the market for a new car.  That old ’91 Oldsmobile isn’t quite cutting it like it used to, and it’s time to trade up, so you decide to spend a weekend out cruising the car lots for a new set of wheels (and maybe some sweeter rims to go with it).  Eventually, [...]

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This Week in Credit News Using Credit Cards to Target Web Ads “Their plans, if implemented, would represent not only a technological feat—tying people’s Internet lives with shopping activities—but also an erosion of the idea of anonymity on the Web. It’s an effort by the two companies to profit by selling access to the insights [...]

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So you’ve ordered a copy of your credit report to check up on your history because you’re thinking about opening a new line of credit and want to check that your credit is up to par.  The report arrives and, much to your dismay, things aren’t quite as peachy as you’d hoped they would be.  [...]

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When you’re trying to fix your credit history and improve your credit score, and you want to use a credit repair service to help you, it can be tricky to pick out the good from the bad.  Here’s a handy guide on what to look for when choosing credit repair services. So you’ve got a [...]

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We spend most of our time in these blogs writing about things that you have to worry about affecting your credit report and score while you’re undergoing credit repair.  Things like late or missed payments, too many inquiries, and accounts falling into collections are just a few of the things you’ll want to avoid popping [...]

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