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How to Start Rebuilding Your Credit Score
Household debt is up… again. In fact, it’s been on a steady rise fiscal quarter after fiscal quarter since 2013. The total American household debt, as of March 2018, was 13.21 trillion. That’s right, trillions. No wonder so many U.S. consumers struggle with the...
Is Transworld Systems Contacting You?
Dealing with debt collections can be scary, especially if you’ve never experienced the stress of letting a credit account go delinquent. Debt collectors come with a variety of outlooks on how they should treat consumers in their efforts to collect a debt. Many are...
How to Raise Your Credit Score by 200 Points
Raising your credit score can sometimes be a long, slowly evolving process. But it doesn’t always have to be. With a little knowledge and focus you can pinpoint the areas of your credit that need the most work, and begin the process of boosting your credit. While it...
What Kind of Home Loan Can You Get With Your Credit Score?
If you’re in the market for a home loan, you will want to take a look at your credit score first, before starting the homebuying process. Since the housing mortgage crisis of 2008, practices have become much stricter when determining who qualifies for a loan, the...
Insights Into Midland Funding LLC
Finding yourself unable to pay bills on time can have a devastating effects both personally and financially. Once some debt goes unpaid and moves into collections, other debt tends to head in that same direction. This seems especially true when a consumer...
How to Improve Your Credit Score
One of the most important numbers to know besides your social security number and family members birthdays, is your credit score. Why? Because so many major life occurrences revolve around your creditworthiness rating. Your ability to purchase a car, obtain a credit...
What to Know About Bad Credit Loans
If you’re suffering from bad credit and looking for ways to dig yourself out, such as with a bad credit loan, you’re not alone. At least one-third to half of Americans’ credit ratings fall below a FICO score of 620 or lower, into the “bad” credit category. Having such...
Ad Astra Recovery Services: What You Should Know
As long as there has been debt, there has been debt collectors like Ad Astra Recovery Services; the two go hand in hand. Debt is such an institutionalized part of most ancient and modern societies, that debt slavery - a practice whereby debt was passed...
Credit Scoring Models: FICO vs. VantageScore
When evaluating the major credit scoring models against each other, it seems to be a case of “out with the old, in with the new.” As FICO has been top dog in the credit scoring industry, VantageScore is edging its way in with small differences that lends itself to...
What Do Pay for Delete Options Really Entail?
Living in a world full of easy money means a constant juggle of offers, some great - some not so good, to take on debt. Racking up debt is incredibly easy to do, and before you know it, the amount of debt you have a responsibility to pay off can become overwhelming....