Category: Credit Score
How to Fix Your Credit After Making Bad Credit Decisions
Bad credit decisions do not define your credit score for the rest of your life. There are many ways to overcome your past mistakes. However, [more…]
Will Somebody Give a Young Guy a Little Credit?
It doesn’t seem fair. You’ve avoided temptation and refrained from spending all your money on frivolous pursuits. And you’ve worked hard to graduate from high [more…]
Confused by Credit Score vs. Credit Worthiness? This is the Difference.
Credit: the word that inspires both nervousness and necessity when heard. Credit is a huge part of modern life, and our credit identity is the [more…]
The Stats of Credit Scores: Where Do You Fall?
So, you know your credit score. But do you know how your credit score stacks up with your peers? How about against your parents? Or [more…]
The Secret Herbs and Spices in Your Credit Score
Are you in the market for a credit card, a car loan, or a mortgage? If so, any bank or other lending institutions will look [more…]
How Credit Score and College Loans Go Hand-in-Hand, Before and After Graduation
We all know the importance of going to college and continuing our education to prep ourselves for the best career to financially support ourselves in [more…]
Keeping Calm in a Credit Crisis
In the spirit of “hope for the best, plan for the worst,” we need to talk about a part of your financial future that may [more…]
Creditworthiness: How to Get It and Keep It
If you will ever need a loan for a house, a car, education, or want to apply for a credit card, then you have to [more…]
Honey, We’re Expecting . . . a Bundle of Financial Needs
Congratulations, you’re expecting! You will soon be a parent and never look at life in the same way again. You also will never look at [more…]
To Plastic or Not to Plastic: That is the Question
There are two sides to everything in life, even credit cards. Sometimes it seems that all you hear about from friends or the media is [more…]