Wednesday, May 02, 2007

How to improve Credit Score?

The term Credit is really important for both lenders and consumers. Because it is the base by which the interest rate of loan is depends on. The higher score will have lower interest rates and the lower score will have higher interest rates. So, it is very important for people to be serious in their credit history. Here are some tips which will help you to improve your credit score

1) First of all collect a copy of your credit report from any one of these three major bureaus; Experian, Trans Union and Equifax. Then look at it very carefully if there is anything wrong or incorrect. It will improve your score if incorrect entries get corrected.

2) Never close your old accounts. It may hear odd but it is true that closing old account actually can hurt your score. Because it will stop showing your past history where you had good payment details. If you have good old accounts then it will automatically increase your credit score.

3) Try to make a wide gap between your credit limit and the actual use. Longer gap between these two will improve credit score.

4) Pay bills on time, this must be the most effective way to improve credit score. If you pay your bills on time then there is no question about debt and thus your credit will improve tremendously.

5) Last of all don’t ever think about Bankruptcy filing if you like to improve your credit. Because Bankruptcy is the worst thing on your credit report.

Try to follow these easy points and see how your credit goes over 700.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love to see this blog.I think one more point to improve credit score is to always organise credit report.Keep it safe and make a regular review on it.

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Anonymous said...

Thank you i been having major credit probs this was just what i needed..

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I also wanted people who read this blog to re-read suggestion #3. It is often not considered when people charge on credit cards. Have that gap!
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Anonymous said...

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