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How To Improve Your FICO Credit Score

Regardless of your financial situation, your FICO credit score is an important aspect of your finances. The better your score, the better your rates![...] read more »
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3 Ways to Get a Late Payment Removed From Your Credit Report

As long as you don’t have several late payments on the same account, it’s really not that difficult to get them removed. Here are three methods you c[...] read more »
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Does The FICO Score Matter?

The FICO score is here to stay, but should you shape your financial behavior according to its principles? Does the score account for your lifestyle?[...] read more »
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5 Things That Don’t Affect Your Credit Score

There are things that don't affect your fico credit score that you may have thought did affect it. Here are a few of them that you shouldn't worry [...] read more »
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Fico 8 Credit Score – Credit Scoring Might Get Harder

The FICO 8 model is catching on more widely, and you can expect to see some changes in what is important to your credit score. According to myFICO.co[...] read more »
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Your FICO Score Affects More Than Just Loans

Your credit history is used for a number of financially related transactions. If you aren’t careful, a slip up could ruin your credit, and you could [...] read more »
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FICO 8 Mortgage Score Could Make it Harder to Get Approved

In October, the Fair Isaac Company revealed its new Mortgage Score, based on the FICO 8 credit scoring formula. As you might gather from the name of [...] read more »
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Is Your Bank Profiling Your Deposit Account Behaviors?

FICO is getting into the bank deposit business, by marketing a score designed to evaluate your depositor behavior. read more »
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My Credit Cards Are Paid off - Now What?

What is the most wise use of paid off credit cards? Shred 'em, close 'em, and forget 'em - OR - Shred 'em but leave open and risk fees in hope o[...] read more »
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My Experience With myFICO

We’re real close to closing on the sale of our co-op. As result we need a place to move to. These days landlords and realtors tend to ask for a rec[...] read more »
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FICO Prepares to Change Its Credit Score Formula

FICO is planning a major overhaul of its credit scoring system. read more »
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Reading my Fellow Finance Writers » JoeTaxpayer

My best reading of fellow PF bloggers this past week.
Mrs Micah
Consumerism Commentary
Redeeming Riches
The Simple Dollar
The Oblivious Investor read more »
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myFICO Review

You have several options on the myFICO site for finding your FICO score online and monitoring your FICO score. myFICO does charge for access to your [...] read more »
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6 Most Common Credit Myths

One of the things I discovered when I began fixing my credit was that many of the things I had heard about credit was false... here are some myths:[...] read more »
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My credit score: A love/hate relationship

What’s that saying? Oh that’s right, “Damned if you do and damned if you don’t.” I’ve never really had a reason to use this phrase before, but when i[...] read more »
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