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Perfect Credit: 7 Steps to a Great Credit Rating $15.87 If you have negative marks in your credit history, you already know what a pain it is living with bad credit: you get turned down for credit cards and loans, you pay sky-high interest rates when you do get approved, or you have to go (hat in hand) asking family or friends to co-sign for you or loan you money. The list of indignities you suffer with poor credit goes on and on. Lately, amid the ongoing credit crunch, even people with "good" credit histories and respectable credit scores are having a tough time. Banks have imposed new fees, raised interest rates, slashed credit lines and even closed accounts of customers with so-called "good" credit. Which is why, even if you have a fair-to-good credit rating, you need to learn how to achieve "perfect credit." Perfect Credit is the definitive guide to getting and keeping outstanding credit. Think of this book as a roadmap for anyone hoping to establish picture-perfect credit, make improvements to have stellar credit, or simply maintain a fantastic credit standing. Right now, roughly 220 million Americans have credit files maintained by the "Big Three" credit bureaus: Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. Of those individuals, about 40 million Americans (roughly 1 out of 5), have very poor credit, or "deep subprime scores," according to Experian. Another 50 million adults in the U.S. have no credit files - either because they've never used traditional forms of credit, or because their credit files are "too thin" to generate a credit score. Perfect Credit offers all these consumers an easy-to-follow blueprint on how to get superb credit - and how to sidestep numerous credit traps and pitfalls along the way. About the Author Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach, is a personal finance expert, television and radio personality and the author of numerous books, including the New York Times bestseller Zero Debt: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Freedom. Lynnette has appeared on such national TV programs as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Phil, The Tyra Banks Show, The Today Show and Good Morning America. Lynnette, an award-winning financial news journalist and former Wall Street Journal reporter for CNBC, has also been featured in top newspapers including the Washington Post, USA Today, and the New York Times, as well as magazines ranging from Ebony and Redbook to Black Enterprise and Smart Money. She can frequently be seen as a guest commentator on ABC, CNN, FOX Business Network and MSNBC. |
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Credit Score (United States) $78.07 A credit score in the United States is a number representing the creditworthiness of a person or the likelihood that person will pay his or her debts. It has shown to be very predictive of risk, made credit more widely available to consumers and lowered the cost of providing credit. A credit score is primarily based on a statistical analysis of a persons credit report information, typically from the three major American credit bureaus: Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. Lenders, such as banks and credit card companies, use credit scores to evaluate the potential risk posed by lending money to consumers and to mitigate losses due to bad debt. Using credit scores, lenders determine who qualifies for a loan, at what interest rate, and to what credit limits. The Fair Isaac Corporation, known as FICO, created the first credit scoring system in 1958, for American Investments, and the first credit scoring system for a bank credit card in 1970, for American Bank and Trust. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 98 Publication Date: 2010/07/01 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.23 inches |
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Keeping Score on Credit Scores: An Overview of Credit Scores, Credit Reports $38.38 Original publisher: Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2010. LC Number: KF27 .B5364 2010a OCLC Number: (OCoLC)656292490 Subject: Credit scoring systems -- United States. Excerpt: ...9 Employment background screening, I will just say this, there are a lot of sort of start-up companies that will do a background check on someone based on simply a name and a date of birth. That means there are times where I have seen someone like Deborah Adams apply for a job but lose the job because they found another Deborah Adams with a felony record. She never had a fel-ony. Someone else like Thomas Payne was another person that I saw. UTIERREZ Chairman G. The gentleman's time has expired. ENDRICKS Mr. H. Okay. Thank you. Chairman G. Thank you. UTIERREZ The prepared statement of Mr. Hendricks can be found on page 124 of the appendix. ] Chairman G. I want to mention that in the interest of UTIERREZ time, and as agreed by all parties, Mr. Pratt will testify on behalf of his association and the three credit bureaus, but they have all submitted written testimony and are here to answer questions. Mr. Pratt, you are recognized for 5 minutes. STATEMENT OF STUART K. PRATT, PRESIDENT AND CEO, CON-SUMER DATA INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION, ACCOMPANIED BY MYRA K. HART, PH.D., SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, ANALYT-ICAL SERVICES, EQUIFAX INC.; CHET D. WIERMANSKI, GLOB-AL CHIEF SCIENTIST, ANALYTIC DECISION SERVICES, TRANSUNION LLC; STAN OLIAI, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, EXPERIAN DECISION ANALYTICS RATT Mr. P. Mr. Chairman, and members of the subcommittee, thank you very much for this opportunity to appear before you today. I would like to just focus on a few key issues in my oral re-marks, and let's start with the importance of preserving and ex-panding data for risk decisions. Our members ' databases preserve an invaluable history of how we manage our finances: 18,000 data sources update 3 billion data elements every month. This Congress, by enacting new laws, calling for creditors to do even more to assess a consume... |
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What is Contained in a Credit Report by Tom Peters
Everyone that has ever taken out credit will have a credit report. These reports are available from a number of companies, most of them want you to purchase the report but there are companies that do provide free reports. To get an idea of what a credit report looks like these three companies Equifax, Trans Union and Experian offer these for free. A credit point is a freeze frame of your financial history at a particular point in time. The report lists out a factual history of your financial management and is used by companies providing credit to determine what will be your financial management when you are repaying debt to them. The report can also be used by many other people to determine whether you make payments on time, this would be use for a landlord who is considering an application from a potential new tenant.Credit reports obtain their information from a variety of sources, most of the information is recorded by financial companies. The credit reports contains limited personal information about you that is specific, it does not include any behavioral information such as whether you like to drink rum and coke and dance all night. It will list your name, current and previous addresses, social security number, employment history and date of birth. Details on your credit accounts will be listed that include who you owe money to, is this a loan just in your name or a joint loan with someone else, the balance of the loan, the original loan amount, the repayment history of being on time or late, how often you repay the loan (the loan payment schedule). Every time you make a credit enquiry that will be reported on the credit report. These enquires are classified into two categories, a soft inquiry and a hard inquiry. A soft inquiry is when a financial company offers you credit and a hard inquiry is when you make an application for credit. If you have not been able to repay your loan and it has been sent to a debt collector, this will also be recorded on the report. It is important that your credit report is positive as it provides the initial information on whether someone will provide you with credit.
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