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Credit Score

How Do You Get Your Annual Credit Report?

By Joey Johnston | July 18, 2019

Checking your credit report used to be something you did once a year. Now, you can do it every week for free. A credit report is a detailed record of…

How To Establish Credit With No Credit History

By Maureen Milliken | April 26, 2018

It’s hard to imagine any consumer being invisible in the digital world of the 21st century, but there are as many as 28 million “credit invisibles” in America, according to…

How to Increase Credit Limit

By Phil Sheridan | April 20, 2018

Before asking “How do I increase my credit limit?” it is probably best to ask yourself “Should I increase my credit limit?” There are times it is not such a…

Renting with Bad Credit

By Joey Johnston | January 10, 2018

Yes, it is possible to rent an apartment with bad credit, and there are ways to boost your appeal as a renter to prospective landlords. A lot of the information…

Does a Short Sale Affect Your Credit Score?

By Joey Johnston | December 1, 2017

Short sale or foreclosure? Short sale … or foreclosure? What should I do? That was the unhappy decision a lot of distressed home owners had to make during the Great…

Removing Bankruptcy From Your Credit Report

By George Morris | November 3, 2015

The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic looked like it was going to cause a flood of bankruptcy filings in 2020, but just the opposite occurred. Filings dropped from 774,940…

Sources:

  1. C. Tressler (2024, January 4) You now have permanent access to free weekly credit reports. Retrieved from https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2023/10/you-now-have-permanent-access-free-weekly-credit-reports?utm_source=chatgpt.com