If you have unpaid medical debt, this can, and will, affect your credit score, which may affect your ability to purchase a house or car. If you are suffering from piles of unpaid medical bills, there are some things you can do to help deal with your medical debt.
Make sure that first you thoroughly examine [...]
Credit cards can work to your advantage, but only if you know how to manage them. There are important guidelines to consider in your use of plastic.
First off, don’t let your cards site idling in your wallet. In order to limit risk and expenses, many card issuers are closing accounts because of inactivity, even to model [...]
Most people have no idea how credit scores are measured and how they can be repaired and improved upon. If you are late on even one payment it can reduce your credit score by as much as 100 points. Unfortunately, low credit scores are more common than ever and the downturn in the economy has made [...]
If you’ve ever read the fine print of your credit card agreement, then you’ve probably run across the term “universal default.” But do you actually know what it means?
The provision, generally buried in the fine print of your credit card agreement, basically says that if you are late on any payment to anyone, the interest [...]
Simply put, refinancing a loan is the process of paying off your current loan with a new loan plan, which has a lower interest rate. The average homeowner will keep any given mortgage seven years or less before moving or refinancing. In a declining interest rate environment, that holding period for the loan would decrease even [...]
Different Types of Credit Cards and Features
The more credit card companies appear on the market, the more credit cards you have to choose from. Although they offer a huge range of different deals, you need to look for the one and only that will work best for you. Let’s now consider some major types of [...]
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.
What is a credit score?
Credit reporting was created more than 100 years ago, when small retail merchants banded together to [...]
Closing credit card accounts may not look great on your credit report, and lower your credit scores. This happens for two reasons.
First, the longer you have had credit accounts open, the higher your credit score will go. If you close an account you got when you turned 18, it will take a chunk out of [...]
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In today’s economy, more and more people are shuffling credit card balances around in an attempt to get lower interest rates and lower payments. The credit card companies know this and, to make the deals more attractive, they are offering low teaser rates and other benefits in an order to attract these customers. If you are [...]
Currently, more than 1/3 of the new cars for sale in the U.S. can be purchased with zero-percent financing from manufacturers. Toyota, Nissan, Ford, Infiniti, Mercury, Chrysler, Mazda, Lincoln… the list of automakers offering interest-free financing deals just keeps growing. Commercials touting the offers with annoying songs and shouting announcers have taken over television and radio — and the craze has probably just [...]
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