Category Archives: Credit Score & Credit Report
- Credit Reports, Credit History, and Credit Scores in Hiring and Job Performance. Is It Even Fair?
You hear all the time how credit history can impact your ability to get a job. In the debt relief world debt settlement and credit counseling companies claim bankruptcy prevents people from getting jobs and that’s why people need to use their services instead. But what is reality and what is the negative impact of [...]
- If You Rent It Could Help Build Good Credit
Experian today announced a new product to help renters convert their on-time rental payments into good credit. Up until now Experian had only really been adding rental history through its RentBureau product that is used by big apartment complexes. Now they’ve launched a new product for use by all landlords, big or small. ClearNow allows [...]
- Truly Free Credit Scores and Daily Credit Monitoring
When it comes to free credit reporting products, I mean really free, the services are hard to find. Sure, there have been all sorts of teaser products offered that then signed you up for paid services but where does someone go to find their actual credit score? Until a year or so ago the online [...]
- CBSD On Your Credit Report? Here is What it Means And What You Should Do About It.
If your credit report contains the notation CBSD it is a common abbreviation for Citibank South Dakota (CBSD). This account may be a store card or an account in the name of Citibank. Regardless, if you want to get to the bottom of the CBSD account on your credit report, I would suggest that you [...]
- 4 Simple Steps to Protect Your Credit from Identity Theft
Identity theft is on the rise, according to the FTC, and it’s a crime that is getting more expensive than ever for American consumers. Last year it cost us $1.52 billion, up from $1.4 million in 2010. The median amount paid out per claim was $537. And that’s just the cost of reported crimes. While [...]
- Debt Collectors and Credit Bureaus to Report to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The CFPB has just announced they will be rolling out new proposed rules that will regulate consumer debt collection and consumer reporting markets. Proposed rules would mark the first time these important markets would be subject to federal supervision. “Our proposed rule would mean that those debt collectors and credit reporting agencies that qualify as [...]
- Credit Scoring is a Scam and a Fraud
Photo Credit: The Truth About I was just sitting here and noticed that someone searched for “credit scoring is a scam and a fraud.” Kind of an interesting search. Frankly I never thought of it like that. But that reality is that point of view isn’t all that far off. You see the impression people [...]
- Top 3 Cures for a Low Credit Score
A low credit score is bad news, particularly if you are trying to renegotiate the terms of a loan, applying for a home loan, trying to land a job, or searching for an apartment. In today’s environment, you need a high credit score for a slew of reasons. So if you need to build your [...]
- Quick Credit Tip: Become an Authorized User
Learning how to become an authorized user on a credit card is a strong and quick strategy for building your credit, and building it fast. In fact, I have seen people’s scores jump as much as sixty points just by becoming authorized users. Before discussing the mechanism for becoming a an authorized user on a [...]
- How to Easily Rebuild and Repair Your Credit After Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, or Reposession
Most credit repair scams and schemes and just a worthless waste of money and don’t help you to legally rebuild your credit. Here is a simple process I have advised people to use for years that does the trick for rebuilding and restoring your credit from any credit disaster. This isn’t some crafty or quasi-legal [...]
- If You Use a Yahoo or AOL Email Address. Your Credit Score Probably Sucks
An interesting credit score data mining observation has emerged from our friends over at Credit Karma. Apparently they took a look at the average credit scores of 20,000 people and placed those scores into bins based on the email address people use. They then calculated the average credit score. Now your email domain is not [...]
- Bad Credit Is Bad News for the Unemployed
A recent report from Inc. Magazine says at that at least 60 percent of employers run credit checks on potential job applicants at least some of the time. This is a 17 percent increase from 2006. And given the high unemployment rate, this is particularly concerning. With a much bigger pool of candidates to choose [...]
- The Credit-Scoring Scam of the Century
Are you a victim of the credit scoring scam of the century? If you have a credit card, there’s a 50/50 chance that you are. What Is the Credit Scoring Scam of the Century? About half of credit card companies use a shameful tactic to keep their competitors away from you, and this tactic hurts [...]
- True Cradle Robbers – Stealing Credit From The Cradle
It’s often not a parent’s first thought to check the credit report of their minor child, however, it may now become a necessity. Not because a child may fraudulently be using credit without their parents’ knowledge but because scammers may have stolen their unused Social Security number and identity. The Better Business Bureau (BBB) put [...]
- Your Roster Number is Your Credit Score
Whenever I was in basic training, each recruit, each private was assigned their own roster number. That roster number was our identifier. We had to put it on all our gear. I had to have it strapped across a tape on my Kevlar, which is our helmet. It dictated as far as when we would [...]