How to Understand and Improve Your Credit Your credit score plays a major role in your financial life — from loan approvals to interest rates and long-term affordability. Whether you’re building credit for the first time or repairing past mistakes, understanding how credit works is the first step toward improvement. Step 1: Know Where Your [...]
Getting Started with Improving a Poor Credit Score By Melissa Horton, Expert Last Updated: Aug 27, 2024 The best place to start in bring your credit score up into the “good” range, above 670, is to pull your credit reports from each of the three credit bureaus—Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. You can also check your credit by logging [...]
13 Interesting Facts about Credit Reports According to a study from the Federal Reserve, the larger the gap between your credit score and your spouse’s score, the greater you are at risk for divorce. Speaking of spouses and credit scores, you can now find a date based on credit score at CreditScoreDating.com. After all, they [...]
