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Tag Archives: FICO
10 Ways to Get a Free Credit Report
Did you know that many people don’t actually know how to obtain a credit report? More importantly, some of them don’t even know why they should check their credit report each year. Credit reports help prove your credit worthiness to … Continue reading
Posted in Credit Cards, Debt, Personal Finance
Tagged annual credit report, Credit, credit fraud, Credit Report, credit score, denied credit, FICO, free credit scores, Identity Theft, welfare
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Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University: Week 5
This week’s lecture was about credit reports, credit reporting bureaus, identity theft, and collection agencies. Quite a scattering of topics. The first part of the class was on credit scores and credit bureaus. Dave makes the point that a FICO … Continue reading
A Life Without Debt: Not Immune From The Credit Crisis
I knew it was bound to happen, but I’d been hoping that somehow I’d avoid it. Despite having excellent credit and no debt, we got a letter from one of our credit card companies dropping our limit from $10,000 to … Continue reading
Posted in Credit Cards, Debt, Personal Finance
Tagged available credit, Credit, credit card, credit card reward, credit score, Debt, debt free, Debt Reduction, economic crisis, FICO, FICO score, no debt
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A Life Without Debt: A High Credit Score
I know that many people believe that you have to have debt in order to have a high credit score. Many people keep their debt just so they can keep their score up (so they can get more credit later). … Continue reading
The Death of FICO?
Last week, Sadie wrote about how debt free living means not being a slave to a FICO score. In the article, she pointed out that FICO has become such an integral part of our lives that even the debt free … Continue reading
Posted in Credit Cards, Debt, Insurance, Personal Finance, Utilities
Tagged available credit, credit risk, credit score, credit worthiness, death of FICO, Debt, debt free, FICO, FICO score, low credit score
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A Life Without Debt: Freedom from FICO
One of the benefits of a life without debt is (some) freedom from the gods at FICO. Because I don’t do debt, my FICO score is not as important to me as it is to some and that takes a … Continue reading
Posted in Credit Cards, Debt, Personal Finance
Tagged credit score, Debt, debt free, Debt Reduction, FICO, FICO credit score
7 Comments