Credit and Debt
How to Raise Your Credit Score with a Credit Card
You are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Your last debts have been paid off a few months back and your bank account is steadily growing for a change. You aren’t stressing [...]
Debt to Income Ratio: How Much Debt is Too Much?
While there are many different opinions as to how much debt is too much, the two ratios below are the most widely used measures of how much debt is manageable. These ratios are also known as [...]
The Right Way to Do a Debt Consolidation
The situation outlined in Why Debt Consolidation Doesn’t Work…Usually is pretty typical, but if you want to do a debt consolidation this doesn’t have to be your reality. You can make it work, but there are a [...]
Why Debt Consolidation Doesn’t Work…Usually
Want to know a secret about debt consolidation loans? They usually don’t work. There’s a lot of money to be made by promoting and arranging these loans, as well as the enormous hope that surrounds them, [...]
Fair Credit Reporting Act: Know Your Rights
Your credit report contains a great deal of information about your financial situation. And, while you might think that the information is restricted to your credit information, credit bureaus have quite a bit of other information [...]
How to Get Free Credit Score from Credit Sesame
Thanks to the growing interest in credit, and how it affects finances, a number of consumers are increasingly interested in their scores. Your credit situation can not only impact whether or not you are approved for [...]
Do You Need Credit Monitoring? How About a Free One?
Your credit situation can be a big deal. Changes to your credit situation can result in problems with getting approved for a loan, or require you to pay more in interest when you are approved. Some [...]
The Pros and Cons of Credit Union Credit Cards
If you are looking for a credit card with better terms and conditions than the big banks, your local credit union may hold the perfect solution. Credit unions are smaller local financial institutions that have been [...]
Are You Comfortable with Your Level of Debt?
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine made this interesting observation about his financial situation: “I’m comfortable with this level debt. I’m paying it down, but I’m not too worried about paying it down [...]
3 Things Mortgage Lenders Look for in a Borrower
With the mortgage rates at historic low and the housing market recovering from the crash, more people are thinking about accessing home equity or buying a home. Over the past few years, lenders are starting to [...]
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