by LeRoy
5 Major Threats to Your credit score
A person’s credit score is an extremely important tool, especially if the individual wishes to apply for a loan, or wants to get insurance. Maintaining a good credit score is crucial for maintaining a sound financial picture, since this allows the person to apply for loans without encountering too much hassle. Here are the 5 major threats to one’s credit score.
Bankruptcy
A bankruptcy is like a big black eye on a person’s credit report. It tells prospective creditors that you’re unable to honor your promise to pay back your debts and other financial obligations, from utility bills, credit card charges, child support and more. Although it may take a while for a person to rehabilitate his credit score after bankruptcy, the impact of the bankruptcy though dissipates over time. To restore your credit worthiness, you will need to add new trade lines to your report, as well as take on other forms of credit, like a small appliance loan, so that your credit score will not stagnate.
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by LeRoy
It’s a safe bet that you have used a calculator at some point in your life. Perhaps it was a behemoth from Texas Instruments that needed a heavy duty cord to plug it into the wall, maybe it only required a few batteries, or it could have been solar powered, who knows, maybe the only calculator you have ever really used is the one that’s on your computer. Either way, you know how much quicker they are at solving problems. That’s what they’re designed to do, and they do it well.
Over the course of many years, calculators have definitely evolved. In fact, it seems as though they are getting more and more specialized. There are scientific calculators that let you perform many complicated computations, and graphing calculators, too. Then when you go online you can find calculators that estimate all kinds of things, such as your chances of finding true love, how much of a carbon footprint you have, and even when you’re statistically due to die – yuck!
That’s a lot of calculating power, to be sure. But there’s one that just may be the most important when it comes to everything you do financially: the credit score calculator. So what is it? Just like it sounds, it will use the data you put into to give you a close approximation of your credit score. While each of the companies that give credit scores keeps their precise methods a secret, enough is known about them to give you a pretty good idea of where you stand.
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by LeRoy
Just about everyone who has been an adult for any amount of time knows the importance of establishing and maintaining a good credit score. It is your credit score, as determined by the three credit reporting bureaus, that determines your creditworthiness. Lenders of all sorts, and even landlords and insurance agents, are likely to pull your credit history practically before they shake your hand and say, “Nice to meet you.”
Do you know your credit score?
Do you wonder how TransUnion, Experian, and Equifax calculate credit scores?
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by LeRoy
What is the credit score scale and how do you know whether you have a good or bad credit rating? Well, the credit score scale may seem dark and mysterious, but it really isn’t all that complicated. Here is what you need to know about your credit score and the credit score scale.
The credit score scale ranges from three hundred (300) to eight hundred and fifty (850). That means that if you are alive and there are records of you, there is no way you can have a credit score less than 300. If you have only a little bit of debt, you have had it for a long time (many years), and you have never missed a payment or been late with a payment, and you have an income, you might just have the perfect score of 850. Of course, very few people have either the lowest or the highest possible score; just about everyone falls somewhere between the two extremes.
If you want to fall at the very top level of the credit score scale, you should shoot for a rating of at least 720. At one time in the not too distant past, you may have been considered at the top of the game is your score was above 680, but no more. Just about every lender gives the best terms and interest rates only to those whose credit score falls above 720 on the scale.
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