Credit Score Urban Legends Debunked When I get married, do my spouse and I get a joint credit score? If I get a raise at work, will my credit score go up? These are common questions asked every day by many Americans because credit scores are seemingly arbitrary numbersand credit reports are lengthy and unintelligible. [...]
How can a fully approved loan get denied for funding after the borrower has signed loan docs? Simple, the underwriter pulls an updated credit report to verify that there hasn’t been any new activity since original approval was issued, and the new findings kill the loan. This generally won’t happen in a 30 day time-frame, but [...]
Six Simple Tips to Help You Save Pick the brains of the most “financially fit” Americans, then dissect their good habits. That’s the premise of a new study from Florida State University, where researchers identified the common traits of everyday folks with high levels of financial well-being. The results? Surprisingly, some very basic habits, says [...]
Use these ideas to help you save and stay on the right track With the economic hurdles over the past 18 months, it’s easy to see how some people may have lost their financial way. Rather than making drastic changes, sometimes the best route to financial security is setting small, yet achievable goals. Here are [...]
Rounding Up Debt Payments: Does It Really Help? by: Trent Ham May 5, 2009 One technique that I’ve always used to make my personal finance management easier is to round up regular debt repayments to the nearest $10 or $100. I do this for two reasons. First, a round number is much easier to handle [...]
Buying a home is probably the biggest purchase most people will make, yet they go into it blind and most make the six biggest, most common and costly mistakes homebuyers make. With a little guidance from your Mortgage Professional and your Realtor you can avoid these mistakes. Not knowing your credit score. If you’re contemplating a home [...]
A good credit score translates into lower interest rates for home-shopping borrowers. In a mortgage lender’s eyes, the higher your score is, the less risk you are, and the more likely it is you will pay off your debt. For this reason, borrowers with lower scores usually end up paying higher interest rates on their [...]
If you have clients or you yourself are in need of credit remediation, you should seek to align yourself with a credible referral source for credit repair. While government web sites will suggest that self-help may be the best option, keep in mind that for the most part these people lack discipline when it comes [...]
Typically, a person with a bad credit score is in this position because they lack structure in their life. There are, of course, cases where unplanned health or employment complications are to blame, but for the most part, these are individuals who lack the discipline to pay their bills on time or curb their spending. [...]
There are five factors that comprise the credit score. They are listed below in order of importance, just as an underwriter would look at the score: Payment History: 35% impact. Paying debt on time and in full has apositive impact. Late payments, judgments and charge-offs have a negative impact. Missing a high payment has a [...]
In the 1960s, Fair Isaac Corporation started working on a system lenders could use to evaluate the likelihood of receiving repayment on loans. Prior to that, it was really a matter of trusting an individual to be a “man of his word,” so to speak. Fair Isaac sought to take human error out of the [...]
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