Tag Archives: repair my credit
- What can I do to clean up the last hang ups on my credit report? – Jon
6 1/2 years ago, my wife and I got married. She had just graduated college and apart from student loans, we had worked to eliminate her debt. Neither of us had car loans, I had a credit card with no balance, and I had just bought a house. This is where it gets ugly. I [...]
- How Can I Build My Credit With No Job? – Maria
“Dear Steve, I just got my residency and would like to know how to start building my credit. I don’t work so I have no idea if lenders are going to give me any credit cards and my husband has bad credit that we need to fix too. How can I build my credit with [...]
- I’m Not Paying My Bills But Need to Rebuild My Credit. – John
“Dear Steve, I am currently past due and do not pay payments on my debt. I am aprox. $2500 in debt from two credit cards, a loan, and debt thats being collected from another source from sprint. I have not planned on paying any of these but i need to build credit and fix this. [...]
- I Can Afford to Payoff My Old Debt. Should I? – Emma
Emma “Dear Steve, I was financially reckless as a college student, incurring approximately $22,000 in various credit card debt that I ignored throughout graduate school & post-graduate training. Well, now I’m all done and I make a lovely, lucrative salary. I want to buy a house. My credit score is in the low 500s. I [...]
- I Am a City of Houston, Texas Employee and Need to Repair My Credit so I can Build a House. – Jocelyn
Jocelyn “Dear Steve, I am a 15 year City of Houston, Texas employee. My gross income is about $27,000 a year. We get no raises or cost-of-living adjustments. However, despite my low income I have managed to purchase a piece of property. Years ago I became ill with a form of cancer and ended up [...]
- Jennifer Says “We Have Accumulated So Much Debt And Bad Credit. What Do We Do?”
“Dear Steve, We have accumulated so much debt our credit score is to low to even buy a house. I’ve been looking into different programs to help, unfortunately the charge money I can’t afford either, we have to do this on our own. If a creditor is offering to let you pay over 4 payments [...]