A road map for how to navigate the confusing, secretive world of consumer credit, and how to upgrade and correct your score.

This book is a consumer instruction manual for the credit reporting and credit scoring systems. Although these credit systems directly effect the financial standing of millions of Americans, few people understand them.

How to Raise Your Credit Score In 10 Easy Steps is the most informative book you will ever read about credit scores! An Accredited Financial Counselor with an MBA, Angel Love, has helped thousands of military Service Members all over the country learn real strategies to raise their credit scores. Now this information is available to anyone who wants to understand all aspects of the credit score, from the differences between the various scoring models, to how they're calculated. Save hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on the cost of credit by implementing these practical solutions to managing your personal finances today!Learn why you have a different credit score from each of the credit reporting agencies!Find out the one thing that prevents a high score (780) from being an 800!Discover what consistently drops your score by 12-20 points each time you do it!Figure out how to re-build credit after a bankruptcy, or establish credit if you've never had it before!Discover little-known information on accessing your report from the 4th credit bureau, as well as the other agency that collects widely reported information about you!Learn where to get the money to pay off your credit card bills!This book offers complete and concise information on raising your score, and avoiding the things that decrease your score. Learn to think like the credit scoring models and qualify for the most competitive interest rates on houses, cars, and insurance policies. Get this book today and be part of that elite club with 800+ credit scores, enjoying greater financial freedom!

No more paying top dollar to attorneys and credit repair companies. The secrets are revealed. This book will teach you the incredibly easy process the professionals are using and charging thousands for. A simple step-by-step guide to remove all derogatory items on your credit reports, even if they do belong to you!Are charge-offs, repos, bankruptcies, judgments, short-sales, loan modifications, late payments, and collection accounts preventing you from receiving the new home or car that you dream of, or preventing you from getting a better job or credit card?Say no more, and make them vanish from your credit report file, so your FICO score will dramatically improve!

The first consumer credit bureaus appeared in the 1870s and quickly amassed huge archives of deeply personal information. Today, the three leading credit bureaus are among the most powerful institutions in modern life—yet we know almost nothing about them. Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion are multi-billion-dollar corporations that track our movements, spending behavior, and financial status. This data is used to predict our riskiness as borrowers and to judge our trustworthiness and value in a broad array of contexts, from insurance and marketing to employment and housing. In Creditworthy, the first comprehensive history of this crucial American institution, Josh Lauer explores the evolution of credit reporting from its nineteenth-century origins to the rise of the modern consumer data industry. By revealing the sophistication of early credit reporting networks, Creditworthy highlights the leading role that commercial surveillance has played—ahead of state surveillance systems—in monitoring the economic lives of Americans. Lauer charts how credit reporting grew from an industry that relied on personal knowledge of consumers to one that employs sophisticated algorithms to determine a person's trustworthiness. Ultimately, Lauer argues that by converting individual reputations into brief written reports—and, later, credit ratings and credit scores—credit bureaus did something more profound: they invented the modern concept of financial identity. Creditworthy reminds us that creditworthiness is never just about economic "facts." It is fundamentally concerned with—and determines—our social standing as an honest, reliable, profit-generating person.

Now, you can finally end the cycle of bad credit and get back on your feet by following the step-by-step advice and tools in Credit Repair Kit For Dummies, 2nd Edition. You’ll find out everything you need to know about creating a solid plan to get your credit back on track. You’ll discover how to find your credit report, review all of the information in it, and learn how you can repair and spruce it up. You’ll learn how to communicate with creditors and how to budget so that you can pay your bills in full and on time. You’ll learn how to apply these credit strategies to all life situations, from building credit with your life partner to financially surviving a divorce, unemployment, and student loans. You will find out how to safe-guard your identity so that other people don’t damage your credit. Find out how to: Take charge of your credit Get help from credit counselors Request copies of your credit report Know how to interpret your credit report and credit score Avoid foreclosure Communicate with collectors, lawyers, and the courts Manage medical debt Safe-guard your identity Complete with lists of ten tips to avoid identity theft and reduce damages, ten ways you can prevent foreclosure, ten methods for establishing and improving credit, and ten strategies for handling financial emergencies, Credit Repair Kit For Dummies, 2nd Edition is your one-stop guide to improving and maintaining your credit score and protecting your identity. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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