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Posted about 9 years ago

Easy steps to improve your credit

Keeping our credit rating or score is important for any future purchase or even that job you may want. Here are 5 easy ways to help improve your score.

1: Pull your report for free:

The initial phase in changing your credit is to understand your present score. Obtain a copy of your current credit report or better yet, subscribe to a credit monitoring site to see more current data of your scores.

2: Pay your bills on time:

If you have missed any payments the last couple of years, it will

help your score altogether and settle your past due status with the lenders included.

By paying your overdue bill, your banks will fix these derogatory hits from your report on every bureau.

3: Get the balance right:

10% of your FICO rating credit mix you have and the credit lines you have accessible to you. Ensuring you have the right credit (credit & retail cards) and a credit mix is crucial.

This sound blend indicates that you know how to handle different sorts of credit responsibilities.

4: Reduce your debt:

Your debt to available credit ratio is the percentage of the sum you owe versus the amount of credit extended to you.

It decides an entire 30% of your FICO assessment.

5: Open or increase your lines of credit:

You can also increase your debt to credit ratio by increasing the amount of credit extended to you.

The key here is to keep your balances low and your limits high.

Raise your credit limits if allowed that way your utilization of any given card goes down for example: you have a 5,000 dollar credit card with 4,000 of a balance you are currently utilizing 80% but if you raise it to 10,000 you are now only utilizing 40%

Also try opening more credit lines but if you do, do it periodically over time since having an excessive amount of new credit can hurt your score.

There are numerous approaches to enhance your FICO score and these are some of the quickest and easiest steps down the road of a healthy and robust credit mix which will help your score soar!



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