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A Good Credit Score

What Is A Good Credit Score- 4 Tips to Determine A Good Credit Score

by IAF
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In this video I provide 4 tips to help you determine What Is A Good Credit score. Tip#1 Know what you are looking to obtain the credit for. If you are a first time home buyer the minimum score to have to purchase a home is 620. Between 620 and 640 allows you to obtain small lines of credit under 3,000 dollars. A score of 580-620 gets you into a car in a number of cases. So again know what you are looking to obtain the credit for is tip#1 Tip#2 Know the scoring model used by the creditors you […]
How To Fix Bad Credit

Fix My Credit -5 Tips On How To Fix Bad Credit…

by IAF
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In this video I provide 5 tips on how to fix bad credit. Tip#1 Find out what’s exactly on all 3 of your credit reports by going to www.annualcreditreport.com. There you can get all 3 of your official credit reports and compare the information. Tip# 2 Obtain a secured credit card. The object is to use the secured account and keep a revolving balance of 31% of the credit limit. Essentially if the secured account has 200 dollars as the credit limit your goal would be to keep a balance of 62.00 dollars. Tip #3 Become an authorized user. Essentially […]
Updates about Credit Karma

Updates about Credit Karma

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In this video gives you 2 updates about Credit Karma Credit Karma now provides the Experian Credit Report. As you may know  Experian utilizes the Fico score.  However its important to note Credit Karma does not provide your Fico Score even though they provide the Experian and Transunion reports. Secondly you need to be mindful of the dates for Experian and Transunion reports when the alarms go off about a negative action.   I have found in a number of occasions as a credit counselor clients who called in about debts seen on Credit Karma that were over 7 years old.  In most […]
Annual Credit Report

Why Is It Best To Use Annual Credit Report to Obtain Your Credit Report

by IAF
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In this video I go over 4 distinct reasons why you should use annual credit report dot com over Credit Karma #1 The official place to get all 3 of your credit reports. # 2 The official place to get your true credit score. #3 You can dispute any item and all inaccuracies on your credit reports. #4 Government regulated and the official place to obtain all your reports.
Credit Karma

Credit Karma

by IAF
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In this video I examine the popular consumer credit report site Credit Karma .  Now from the on start let me say  Credit Karma is a fast easy place to pull your credit report.. However, there are 2 factors you need to know when you use Credit Karma. #1 Credit Karma gives the Vantage score not the Fico score. The Fico score is what most creditors use to determine if they are going to extend you credit for a line of credit or credit card. #2 Credit Karma at the time of doing this video used the Experian and Transunion […]