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March 23, 2010

Free Credit Report; is it Necessary During Today’s Times?

Mike Clover asked:


Credit Worthiness

Free Credit Reports are plastered all over the place, internet, TV, radio, and mail. The need to know is so important these days because everyone wants to know your credit. The current credit crunch that is taking place is making it tough to get loans, jobs, credit cards, and / or new place to rent. We all know things come up and cause credit issues, but if your credit shows a pattern of credit problems creditors want to know your risk. The foreclosure boom that is taking place now has almost put some of the biggest banks out of business. Fair Isaacs’s new software Next Gen is so precise in determining your risk, it will be the standard for calculating your score. With this new software it will soon be adopted with Freddie and Fannie in the underwriting decision process. Call me silly, but it looks like having your free credit report during today’s times is a must.

Identity Theft

The digital age has also has made your information accessible, and if there is some kind of security breach you would never know unless you signed up for credit monitoring services. The 3 credit bureaus now offer credit report monitoring services. Since this is a huge problem, this is another reason to have a copy of your free credit report to see if there is anything on there that may not be yours. Identity theft is such a huge problem that you cannot take any risks. According to statistics, once you have been robbed of your good name, you will be out of pocket somewhere in the range of $8,000. Identity Theft does not care who you are, they will steal you blind and destroy your credit.

Save Money

Having a copy of your Free Credit Report will save you money on credit cards, bank installments, mortgage rates, and just about any loan you apply for. In past articles we have discussed how you would end up paying thousands of dollars more because either you were not educated about your report, or you just had bad credit period. The result was creditors charged high interest rates on borrowed money. Just imagine if you could save an extra $200.00 dollars a month because you knew your credit scores and what was being reported about you. $200.00 dollars a month over 15 yrs is $36,000 dollars saved not including interest earned. If you start to really get down to the nuts and bolts of your personal creditworthiness and how it can affect your life I would say it’s pretty darn important. I would not wait any longer, get your report today and be an educated and protected consumer.



George

March 21, 2010

Credit Reports?

animal_mother asked:


I viewed my free credit report online from Experian. I know I can still request a free credit report from the other 2 companies this year also (TransUnion and Equifax), but would prefer to space them out throughout the year to view changes and updates. My question is will there be a difference in the reports? I know the 3 may give me a different credit score, but will all my accounts with the amounts I owe be consistent? Thanks.

Scott

March 17, 2010

Help me Please (this is for real)?

askwaltgomery asked:


i saw this website…i have a lot of friends who have done it, and it is a NO SCAM website, it is for real ( and i am serious )
it is freebiejeebies.com and what it is , is you have to refer a certian amont of friends for diffefernt prizes… and then sign up for either blockbuster online, netflix online, a weightloss program, 3 free credit reports, bidz.com , and a couple others… i signed up for netflix… but now for the gift i want ( a MacBook Air … i have to get 50 people to sign up for freebiejeebies.com by using this link ( i am serious this is not a joke, it really works, my best friend just got an iphone in the mail yesterday!
please sign up and help me achive the goal of 50 referrals with this link…(people with who sign up with more than one email adress will get points)…here is the link

http://gifts.freebiejeebies.co.uk/8849

Esther

Is this a reliable source of credit score?

Montana asked:


Asked this somewhere else, but am not getting any advice. Please help me if you can….

I have Identity Monitor from Citi (I have a credit card with them). One of the features of the Identity Monitor is that I can look up my credit report whenever. It tells me accurately what is on my report (it matches up with my free credit reports from those 3 agencies or whatever). So, would you say the credit score it gives me is about accurate?

Does anyone know their score more factually and have Identity monitor? are the scores the same or at least close?

Clifford

March 6, 2010

CRedit Question. Please HELp?

Filed under: Credit — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 6:04 am
Jess asked:


I recently was denied credit. Does anyone know how I can get my credit report fo free from all 3 credit co? I heard that if you have been denied you have the right to get a copy of your cridit report for free. .. Thanks

George

March 4, 2010

A ‘friend’ (lol) has $17,000 in credit card debt.can the following plan of action increase credit score?

hmmm18 asked:


BEFORE these debts occured…over the past 15months…the ‘friends’ credit score was about 635.

the ‘friend’ has $17,000 in debt spread over 3 credit cards. here are the following balances vs availible credit…

$11,000/$11,250 ($300/month)
$4,000/$10,000 ($100/month)
$2,000/$4,000 ($80/month)

About to get lump sum of $12,000…what is best way to spread this money over the cards??

How long will it take my credit score to increase? lol will it increase?

How bad could this debt have affected the score of 635?

Does it affect your credit score to get a ‘free credit report’ ??

Thanks ahead of time for your responses!!! :-)
Also there are other open accounts with the following debt/available credit ratios…

$0/ $1,000 Citibank
$0/ $8,000 Rodgers Jewelers

Aaron

Have you checked your credit *scores*?

Filed under: Credit — Tags: , , , — admin @ 2:58 am
[ΦΘΚ] PIяATE asked:


I’m talking about the FICO scores from all 3 credit bureaus, NOT the free credit reports. I was shopping around http://www.myfico.com and was wondering if it was worth spending the $47.85

Martin

March 3, 2010

Why You Should Apply for a Free Credit Report And What To Do If It Is Bad

Emanuele Allenti asked:


A free credit report is exactly what you need if you are unsure about your credit rating. It will allow you to find out exactly what is improving or diminishing your credit rating-and also help you to determine how best to react. There are hundreds of companies that say they can offer you a free credit report, but they will usually have a hidden charge that you won’t know about until you realize that some money has been drafted from one of your accounts. Other companies, however, are totally legit and will give you your free credit report without any additional charge.

Your free credit report will let you know why credit card companies keep turning you away. A bad credit rating will mean that you are not suitable for a credit card from that company. They will more than likely require a certain credit score for you to obtain a credit card. A free credit report will let you know where you stand in other companies’ eyes; it will also let you know your chance of being approved for a credit card.

If you have taken out a loan within the past year and had some trouble paying it off, then your credit score would have taken a bit of a knock; and you won’t know how bad it could be. So applying for a free credit report will let you know where you stand. There are two ways to apply for your free credit report. One way is through the Internet, which will allow you to have instant access to your credit report; the other way is via telephone and you will receive your credit report within two weeks through the mail.

It is a good idea to keep an eye on your credit score so that you know how bad or good it is. You will then know how likely you will get accepted for a credit card. Or how likely you are to get accepted for renting a property.

If you have just received your credit report and it wasn’t what you expected, then you will want to know which steps you should now take to correct your problems. There are a few ways to clean up your credit report and to make your credit score hit the right side of the bar. If you are wondering how to clean up your credit report, then it would be a good idea to ask yourself what got you the bad report in the first place. If it was not paying your credit card bills, then you have to convince yourself to finish paying off your debts-and to determine how best to do it. You have to sit down and write yourself a sensible budget plan and then follow through with it. That is just one sensible way on how to clean up your credit report.

Upon seeing a bad credit score, you will immediately want to know how to clean up your credit report. The best thing to do is to cut off all the things that are making it bad. Late payments are usually part of the problem; and if you don’t have a lot of money to begin with, it is probably a good idea to limit your spending to your bills. Another somewhat unorthodox approach to cleaning up your credit report is to apply for more credit from companies that you know you can pay back. You borrow small sums of money that you can pay off quickly and without any problems; this will show that you can pay off your borrowings, and that will impress the next person you seek to get credit from.

Cleaning up your credit report is a learning process. You will need to find out effective ways to restore your credit-and then you will have to consistently apply them to your life to alter your spending, saving, and bill-paying habits.



Norma

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