Generally the biggest component of credit repair and improving a credit score is eliminating the delinquent credit accounts from your credit report. Removing delinquent credit accounts requires written disputes to the credit reporting agency and entails patience, good execution and time. While this process is taking place, it is prudent to work on the rest of the credit report and credit accounts to improve the credit score. Two approaches that can help measurably with the credit report … [Read more...]
What are FICO Scores
August 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
FICO scores are one of several credit scores that are used by lenders, banks, insurers, credit card companies and other companies to measure consumer risk objectively. A credit score can be created by different companies based on information in a credit report, but FICO® scores are the most used credit bureau scores in the world. According to the Fair Isaac Corporation, the creator of the FICO score, more than 100 billion scores have been sold by the company and three out of four US … [Read more...]