Archive for the ‘FICO articles’ Category

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A Realtors View On Credit Scores

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Bonnie Erickson, a great real estate agent and one of the nations top real estate bloggers writes an informative article I propose you read.

Here is a portion: Have you ever wondered how important a credit score is? Credit scores are a big mystery to some people. There are things called tri-merges, credit ratings, adverse credit, no credit, credit bureaus, etc. All the terms and all the reports overwhelm a lot of people. Only when our credit was stolen and we became victim’s of identity theft did I learn to read a credit report.

Click here for the full article.

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10

An Article With Some Good Insight – By Maureen Francis

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How to Get A Great Credit Score: Part 1 Click Here for full article:

darwin-bell-palm-reading.jpgThe credit score – as mysterious as a gypsy palm reading? Kind of, yea. Sometimes I’m surprised that some credit scores are better than it appears they should be and others are worse. Why? I have no idea.

Maureen informs us:

I will give credit where credit is due.  The author
is our mortgage dude, Ken Mascia from Oxford
Financial.  He's making a semi regular
appearance on the blog doing the finance stuff.
Look for a sizzlin part 2 early next week.
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29

Review your credit regularly. You will hate the results if you get nailed for identity theft.

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It is my suggestion. Review 1 credit bureau every three months.

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29

FICO And Men

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From a previous article on MortgagesUndressed.com. Click here for the full article.

We will now post all credit articles on this site.

Long long ago before the FICO score young couples would come to me for a loan with predicatable conversations. I would run their credit reports, the young wife would be fine, the young husbands – in the tank.

Gads how these guys would play dumb. “I dunno honey” in true Chimp (I mean chump) talk.
Nowadays that doesn’t happen. You see, we males like to compete. We learn at an early age to keep score. Baseball, golf, basketball, kisses, and credit score.