Student Loans Your Credit Score Your student loans are a reflection of the dreams you had when you started school. But now your financial goals are at risk because of those loans. You may have heard that paying off student loans too fast can hurt your...
Credit Score Myths Credit scores and credit scoring systems are complex and at times hard to understand. As a result there’s a lot of misinformation that floats around the public sphere and as with anything this can sometimes lead to widespread rumors that just simply aren’t...
Insurance Rates and Credit Scores It seems like almost everything is affected by credit scores. Most people probably don’t think about insurance as being something that is affected by their credit scores - what does one have to do with the other? Unfortunately, insurance rates in...
FCRA, The Fair Credit Reporting Act October 26, 1970 was the day the Fair Credit Reporting Act started protecting you against mishandling of your credit information and gave you access to review it yourself. But why is the FRCA a big deal? In the wild days before...
What is a FICO Score? FICO is a software company that invented the credit score. Before it existed, lenders had to review your credit history and determine if you met their criteria for a loan. This could take a while, and was subject to individual opinions...
The credit industry is at a crisis point. On the one hand, inaccurate reporting is hurting credit scores and causing a lack of trust. On the other hand, the scoring system itself is broken. It has proven time and time again that it isn’t a...
You are stuck in what is often referred to as the debt cycle. You live paycheck to paycheck and have nothing to show for your life. You don’t have anything to fall back on, and you don’t know what you will do if you ever...