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What is a Good Credit Score Range?

What is a Good Credit Score Range?

How Your Credit Score Affects Your Mortgage Rate

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10 Credit Hacks to Improve Your FICO Score

10 Credit Hacks to Improve Your FICO Score

What Affects Your Credit Score?

What Affects Your Credit Score?

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Do Medical Bills Affect Your Credit?

Do Medical Bills Affect Your Credit?

Do medical bills affect your credit score? Recent credit scoring model changes mean medical debt has less weight in your credit score. But health care debt could still land in your credit file, limiting your ability to borrow and lo...

Does Winning the Lottery Affect Your Credit Score?

Does Winning the Lottery Affect Your Credit Score?

With Powerball and MegaMillion payouts reaching some pretty massive amounts, I thought it would be interesting to dive into how winning the lottery could potentially affect your credit score. Let’s be honest, most of us daydre...

Does Being an Authorized User Help Your Credit Score?

Does Being an Authorized User Help Your Credit Score?

I have been receiving a lot of emails from folks asking how authorizing another person (usually a friend or relative) on their credit card will affect both party’s credit score. Back in the day, becoming an authorized user on ...

How to Improve Your Credit Score by 100 Points FAST

How to Improve Your Credit Score by 100 Points FAST

In most cases, you can improve your credit score by at least 100 points within a month. The key is focus, organization, and using the right methods. Using the methods in this post, I have helped hundreds of people quickly improve th...

What Is The Average Credit Score?

What Is The Average Credit Score?

The average American has “good credit,” according to Experian, one of the three major credit bureaus. The national average credit score is 688, Experian says. Credit scores — using the popular VantageScore and FICO...

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