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  • 1). Mortgage Refinancing Below 500 FICO  By : Tristan Hunt
    If you have been turned down for a mortgage refinance, especially a cash out or debt consolidation refinance, because your lender says your credit score is under 500, there are a variety of new options and strategies available which can help you get the cash you need now to pay off your credit card debts, collection accounts, and other derogatory or poor credit accounts and improve your FICO credit score to the point where you can qualify for a low interest, fixed rate loan.
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  • 2). Bad Credit : Understanding The Basics  By : Joseph Kenny
    Many people have heard of bad credit, but some may not know what it means. For a long time, there was no established method for determining the credit activities of consumers. However, this all changed when a company called the Fair Isaac Corporation designed a credit scoring system that is called the FICO score. Because the three major credit agencies have different information on each consumer, the FICO score calculated by these agencies won't be exact.
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  • 6). Why Your Credit Score Matters  By : Ed Vegliante
    Among the many innovations that emerged after World War II, credit use has become a major factor in our entire economic profile. As a result, your credit rating is the most important factor in determining your credit APR when you apply for any type of credit: credit cards, 0% APR transfer offers as well as mortgage and car loans. What’s a credit score? Credit reporting was created more than 100 years ago, when small retail merchants banded together to trade financial information about their customers.
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  • 8). What Is Credit And How Is It Established?  By : Brad Stroh
    A credit rating is simply someone’s assessment of how well you would be able to pay back money lent to you. Usually, that “someone” is a credit reporting agency; however, creditors themselves will also make their own assessment, which is usually based on the score you receive from the credit reporting agencies and is determined by requirements that vary a great deal from one creditor to the next.
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  • 13). What is a FICO Score and How do I Make it Work for me?  By : Cathy Taylor
    Whether or not you receive a loan and what interest rate you get on your credit card may be determined by something called a FICO score. Named for Fair, Isaac & Co., a California-based company that developed the credit score, the FICO score is the most widely used scoring method to determine credit worthiness. Scores range from approximately 300 to 800 and are provided to lenders by the three credit bureaus, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion.
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  • 17). How to Evaluate and Raise Your Credit Score  By : Cathy Taylor
    Why do some people get offers for pre-approved credit cards and others don’t? What do car dealers know about your financial health that you don’t know? The answer is your credit score. Your credit score is a number generated by a mathematical formula to estimate how likely you are to pay your bills. Based on the information in your credit reports from the three credit bureaus, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion, your credit score has been a factor in your ability to qualify for loans and good interest rates for more than twenty years.
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  • 18). Raise Your Credit Score In 7 Easy Steps  By : Edward Vegliante
    Copyright 2006 Credit Card Surplus How important is it really to repair one’s credit score? Credit scores are tantamount to one’s purchasing and borrowing power. Buying a new home, qualifying for a low APR credit card to shopping for a small business loan all depend on a consumer’s credit history. A low credit score identifies that a consumer may be overextended in bills, is unable to manage accounts or has a poor repayment behavior.
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  • 20). What Does FICO Mean To You?  By :
    Although it may not be a term you're familiar with, the term FICO can be a determining factor as to whether or not you qualify for a credit or loan. But what is FICO, and how does it affect you when it comes to your creditworthiness? The acronym FICO actually stands for Fair Isaac Company, which was the company that originally created a mathematical model for the credit reporting company Experian.
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