Today, a good credit score is essential for getting decent terms on credit--or for getting credit at all. But that's just the beginning: Your credit score rating can be reviewed by everyone from employers to cell phone carriers. Now, MSNBC/L.A. Times journalist Liz Weston has thoroughly updated her best-selling guide to credit scores, with crucial new information for protecting (or rebuilding) yours. Your Credit Score, Fourth Edition thoroughly covers brand-new laws changing everything from how your credit score can be used to how you can communicate with collectors. This edition also adds simple graphics revealing exactly how much skipped payments, bankruptcies, and other actions will lower your credit ratings, and how long it takes to rebound. You'll find new information on "FAKO" alternative scores, expanded coverage of short sales, foreclosures, the new FICO 8 Mortgage Score, and when to "walk away" from a mortgage. Learn how to protect yourself against new credit risks from social networking and mobile banking and how to safeguard against unethical or illegal use of credit scores by employers. Weston updates her expert guidance on using FICO 08 to raise your score, fighting lower limits and higher rates, maintaining the right mix of cards and balances, bouncing back from bad credit, choosing credit "solutions" that help, not hurt… and much more!
America’s Most Trusted Guide to Improving Your Credit Score...
Now Completely Updated!
• Boosting your score: what works now, what doesn’t--and what you should never do!
• Detailed new charts: How short sales, foreclosures, and missed payments impact your score
• Must-have information about credit score abuse--and how to fight back
• By award-winning MSN Money/AARP financial columnist and public radio contributor Liz Weston
Your credit score is more important than ever: not just for getting loans, but for getting jobs, insurance, rentals, and fair rates on all financial services. Now, more than ever, you need America’s #1 guide to credit scores: Your Credit Score, by MSN and AARP columnist Liz Weston.
Accurate, expert, and proven, this book tells you the truth--and it’s already helped many thousands of people take control of their credit scores. Now, it’s completely revamped for today’s massive changes--from FICO 8 to “FAKO,” short sales to employer abuse of credit scores.
Whatever your score, you need this information--to defend yourself, and to get the credit, rates, work, and home you deserve!
America’s Most Trusted Guide to Improving Your Credit Score...
Now Completely Updated!
• Boosting your score: what works now, what doesn’t--and what you should never do!
• Detailed new charts: How short sales, foreclosures, and missed payments impact your score
• Must-have information about credit score abuse--and how to fight back
• By award-winning MSN Money/AARP financial columnist and public radio contributor Liz Weston
Your credit score is more important than ever: not just for getting loans, but for getting jobs, insurance, rentals, and fair rates on all financial services. Now, more than ever, you need America’s #1 guide to credit scores: Your Credit Score, by MSN and AARP columnist Liz Weston.
Accurate, expert, and proven, this book tells you the truth--and it’s already helped many thousands of people take control of their credit scores. Now, it’s completely revamped for today’s massive changes--from FICO 8 to “FAKO,” short sales to employer abuse of credit scores.
Whatever your score, you need this information--to defend yourself, and to get the credit, rates, work, and home you deserve!
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