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What You DON’T Have to Worry About Affecting Your Credit Score

29 December 2011 – 12:25 am PST

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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 [...]

How to Stretch a Holiday Budget

20 December 2011 – 12:47 am PST

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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 [...]

Repairing Your Credit While Hunting for an Apartment

13 December 2011 – 12:38 am PST

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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 [...]

Making Credit Repair Companies Work for You

6 December 2011 – 12:33 am PST

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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 [...]

This Week in Credit 12/2/2011

3 December 2011 – 12:38 am PST

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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 [...]

How Your Bad Credit Could Be Hindering Your Job Prospects

1 December 2011 – 12:34 am PST

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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 [...]

Credit Repair Tips for Keeping Your Holiday Budget Down

29 November 2011 – 12:32 am PST

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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 [...]

Free Credit Score with No Subscription Required!

4 October 2011 – 5:07 am PST

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Sounds almost too good to be true, doesn’t it? In a lot of cases, it is – most offers for a free peek at your credit score come with the caveat that you sign up for a service such as a credit monitoring monthly subscription or alert program for that look behind the curtain. But [...]

This Week in Credit 9/30/2011

1 October 2011 – 2:41 am PST

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This Week in Credit News SEC Report Finds Problems at Credit-Rating Firms “The Securities and Exchange Commission found credit-rating firms sometimes fail to manage conflicts of interest, citing problems with employee stock ownership policies, and said one firm allowed employees to inform some people about a pending rating action before it was publicized.” Credit Cards [...]

This Week in Credit 9/30/2011

1 October 2011 – 2:41 am PST

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This Week in Credit News SEC Report Finds Problems at Credit-Rating Firms “The Securities and Exchange Commission found credit-rating firms sometimes fail to manage conflicts of interest, citing problems with employee stock ownership policies, and said one firm allowed employees to inform some people about a pending rating action before it was publicized.” Credit Cards [...]