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Understanding Credit Rebuilding In Plain Simple English

Living life with bad credit isn’t living life at all. Having bad credit is costing you money in one way or another everyday. In a nutshell bad credit severely handicaps your buying power. The mission of this article is to make the credit rebuilding process easy as possible for you. Continue reading as I unveil the power of credit rebuilding right before your eyes.

Despite what some experts may claim repairing your credit is not complicated. Let’s start with understanding your credit scores. Credit scores simply put gives a quick overview of the positive and negative aspects of your credit report. Many credit rebuilding systems on the market today only focus on the negative aspects of credit repair neglecting the positives. Even if you become a master at cleaning bad marks and dings on your credit report you still need to focus on building new credit.

The role of your credit score is to be a bias witness, and to testify giving the lender and overall view of who you are and if you are capable of repaying a loan.

Nine out of ten credit repair experts will advise you to get rid of all of your credit cards once you begin the credit repair process. As always I chose to go in the opposite direction. I advise my students in my workshop to keep two credit cards which is usually a Master Card and a Visa. These are called revolving accounts, and if used properly can increase your credit ranking by 150 points. The goal is to keep your credit card balances at 20% or below.

If you currently do not have any credit cards please don’t worry, this isn’t a problem. You can always get a secured credit card which works just as well. You cannot use a department store credit card because as far as credit rebuilding is concerned they are extremely harmful – but that’s another article entirely.

According to the latest Credit and Debt report individuals with credit cards end up destroying their credit because they do not understand the five ratios that affect their credit scores. The five usage ratios are as follows 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, and 100%. If you were to use your credit card(s) with the usage of sixty percent it wouldn’t affect your credit score either way. The two tiers below sixty will increase your credit score and the two tiers above sixty will decrease your credit score. For example if you were to keep a balance of 20% on a new revolving account you could increase your credit score by 150 points.

It would be wise to arm yourself with the proper knowledge before preparing for the credit rebuilding battle. You must prepare for a two prong approach. The first prong is the process of establishing a new lines of credit. The second prong is removing all discrepancies from your credit report. By eliminating dings from your credit report you could increase your credit score an additional 300 points easily.

I recommend that you lead of your credit repair battle by establishing a new line of credit first since it is the easiest. You can accomplish this task in about a week or two. The process of removing errors from your credit report can be a little trickier and may require a good credit repair kit depending on your level of experience. There are a ton of credit repair systems that you can choose from, however I am proud to say that the credit repair system that I developed is number one for a reason… It works! You owe it to yourself to at least check it out.

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What is a FICO Score

Having a FICO score and knowing what it is is essential to managing your finances. The is the number that every credit bureau will use to determine if you have good or bad credit and they will assign you a credit score. The system used to find this number is very in depth and can be quite confusing but if you know how it all works, it can also be used very much to your advantage. Knowing how the FICO system works is the key to keeping you credit above par.

The first thing you need to know is the basics of how the FICO system works and what qualifies you for good or bad credit. The highest score you can get in 850. This should be common knowledge but I have been surprised time and time again at the number of people that don’t know this basic thing. If you did not know, don’t worry. After today, you’ll know a lot more than most. The ideal range for your credit score is 720 to 850. This is extremely good. Again, don’t worry if this isn’t you. If you score is about 675, you are still in very good shape. If it’s below 675, there may be some trouble borrowing money in the future. 300 is the lowest.

This FICO score is compiled by many different factors. 35% of your credit has to do with your punctuality of making your payments. Any payment that is more than 30 days late is reported to the credit bureaus and a lower score is the result. 30% of the FICO score is dependent upon your total debt. This means the ratio of your revolving debt. Still confused? Revolving debt is a credit card. Debt that is always available in a certain range. The ratio is how much debt you still have in comparison to the limit on that line of credit.

Another fifteen percent of your credit score is based on the length of your credit history from the time you first borrowed money to the present. Ten percent is based on the kinds of credit you use. Some kinds are weighted more heavily. The final ten percent of your FICO score is determined by how much credit you have used recently.

There are also a couple of unique things that can affect you credit score such as how much money you owe to a court judgement or money you owe on a tax lien. These have much larger penalties, as does any kind of bankruptcy as you could imagine. The number of accounts you have open also affects your score even though it may improve the debt/credit ratio. Each time you make an inquiry on your credit, it also affects your score. Some pulls hurt more than other though. For example, if you are checking your personal credit, this is considered a soft pull and won’t really affect your score.

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Raise Your FICO Score

Having a FICO score and knowing what it is is essential to managing your finances. The is the number that every credit bureau will use to determine if you have good or bad credit and they will assign you a credit score. The system used to find this number is very in depth and can be quite confusing but if you know how it all works, it can also be used very much to your advantage. Knowing how the FICO system works is the key to keeping you credit above par.

Before anything, you need to know the basics of the FICO system. The first place to start is understanding the FICO ladder. A FICO score is somewhere between 300 and 850. Didn’t know that? You should. If you didn’t, that’s okay, because after today, you will know a lot more than most people do about FICO scores. The best spot to be is somewhere between 720 and 850. This is wonderful. Again, if you’re not in this range, it’s okay, anything above 675 is still good. If it’s below that, then… you can worry a little. But just a little because there are still ways to bring it up. The lowest score is 300 and if this looks like yours then you are in trouble, you should worry, and I cannot help you.

A FICO score is comprised of many different parts. To determine your FICO score a bureau looks 35% at your paymnet history, meaning how many payments are delinquent or late. If a payment is past thirty days late, it is reported to a bureau and they will then lower you FICO score. Another 30% of you FICO score depends on you credit/debt ratio. Not know what this means? That’s ok too. Let’s say you have a credit card with 10,000 dollar limits. If you have used 4,000 of that, your debt-credit ratio is 40/60. This is ideal.

Another fifteen percent of your credit score is based on the length of your credit history from the time you first borrowed money to the present. Ten percent is based on the kinds of credit you use. Some kinds are weighted more heavily. The final ten percent of your FICO score is determined by how much credit you have used recently.

There are also a couple of unique things that can affect you credit score such as how much money you owe to a court judgement or money you owe on a tax lien. These have much larger penalties, as does any kind of bankruptcy as you could imagine. The number of accounts you have open also affects your score even though it may improve the debt/credit ratio. Each time you make an inquiry on your credit, it also affects your score. Some pulls hurt more than other though. For example, if you are checking your personal credit, this is considered a soft pull and won’t really affect your score.

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