Bad Credit
Bad credit is when you have a low credit score. Bad credit prevents you from getting a good interest rate on a home loan, a car loan, a student loan or a personal loan. Bad credit will make a potential landlord think twice about renting to you. How can you get bad credit? If you're late making payments or have a debt to income ratio that's too high you may have bad credit. Learn how bad credit affects your financial life and how you can move from bad credit to good credit.
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How to Improve Your Credit Score and What Makes A Good Credit Score
Added September 3, 2009 by Ilyce R. Glink
What makes a good credit score? What makes a bad credit score? How do you improve your credit score? Opening new lines of credit, using all of your available credit, making late payments, or not paying in full can all lower your credit score. The easiest ways to improve your credit score include keeping your credit accounts open for a long time, not opening new credit, having different kinds of credit account, and making your payments on time. Ilyce Glink shows how a credit score can be dropped very quickly, but it takes a long time to build up a good credit score. However, it is possible to improve your credit score over time.
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How Does Negative Information Affect Your Credit Score?
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Your credit score is determined by looking at a combination of information from credit cards, available credit, payment history, and other financial information. Negative information like bankruptcies and liens can drastically lower your credit score, but the information won't stay there forever…
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