Should You Close Credit Cards?
Does Closing a Credit Card Hurt Your Credit? Closing a credit card might seem like a smart way to simplify your finances — especially if you no longer use it or want to avoid…
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Buy Now Pay Later
Buy Now, Pay Later Loans and Credit Scores: What You Need to Know Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) loans have become one of the fastest-growing…
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Credit Score Before Wealth
Until You’re Wealthy, Fix Your Credit Score Why Your Credit Score Matters (Especially If You’re Not Wealthy) Let’s be honest: unless you’re already sitting on…
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How many credit cards should I have?
Should you have 1, 3, 5 or even NO credit cards? How many credit cards should you have? There are good reasons to have no…
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Credit Utilization Secrets
Credit Utilization Secrets: How to Skyrocket Your Credit Score. #creditscoreboost One of the quickest tricks to improving your utilization is to split your monthly payment.…
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Beginners Review Of Credit Cards
There Really Is Almost Always A Credit Card For Your Financial Situation. I reviewed 200 credit cards and these are my key take-aways. Three things…
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9 easy steps to take any credit score over 800!
In this article A list of the things to change on your credit report, in order of importance. These aren’t “hacks” to fix your credit…
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How to Take Control of Your Credit Score
In this article Take control of your credit score by creating the credit accounts that credit scores love. This article will look at what you…
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Maximize Your Credit Score With This Amazingly Simple Trick
In this article The single most useful credit score improvement trick. It’s key to building and maintaining a great credit score for free! I’ll go…
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The Truth About What Your Credit Score Measures
We spend a lot of time worrying about our credit score. Credit repair is a billion-dollar industry. Having a poor credit score can cost us…
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What are Credit Inquiries on Your Credit Report?
Credit inquiries, also known as credit pulls or credit checks, occur when you or entity requests access to your credit report from a credit bureau…
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10 Credit Misunderstandings: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
After looking around on YouTube and Google recently, I decided to make this article because I keep seeing some credit misnomers and misunderstandings repeated. Here…
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Sorting Out the Impact of Soft and Hard Credit Inquiries
Top things to know about credit inquiries: What is a credit inquiry? A “credit inquiry” is the a record of when your credit report was…
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The Right Credit Score for Buying a House
What credit score matters when buying a house to get the best rates? When you are buying a house your lender will almost certainly review…
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Lexington Law Credit Repair Review: What to Know
Top things to know about Lexington Law Credit Repair Lexington Law is a credit repair organization Being a credit repair organization means they accept payment…
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The Right Number of Credit Cards to have in 2024
How many credit cards should I have? Credit score research has shown that having at least 3 credit cards can help you improve your credit…
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How Credit Scores Work: What to Know
How do credit scores work Credit scores work by putting a number value on the chance that a person will default on at least one…
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Does Credit Repair Work and How to Find a Reputable Company
What is credit repair? Credit repair is the process of improving a poor credit score. Credit repair commonly involves legally attempting to enhance your credit…
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Credit Cards Can Make You Overspend. Prevent it!
The credit card problem Social science findings consistently show that people tend to spend more when using credit cards compared to cash. Therefore, it’s a…
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5 things that can blow up your credit score
About this video Credit scores and credit reports are complicated. So, it’s not a surprise that a lot of misunderstanding swirls around them. Sometimes that…
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Tens of Thousands in Mortgage Savings by Using a Credit Card!
The Most Expensive Purchase of Your Life Buying a home is the most expensive purchase most of us will ever make. When we buy a…
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