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Affording a Home
Can you really afford a house? If so, how much house can you afford? To determine this answer will take serious financial planning, and the best time to start is at least six months before buying the home... (read more)

Is Your Credit Score Being Held Against You?
Credit Scores That HurtIs your credit score being held against you?More and more the staples of life depend on your credit score... (read more)

Planning Your Financial Future
Millions of people give a lot of thought to financial planning but get frustrated and give up before ever making any progress... (read more)

Your FICO Score and Applying for a Loan
Have you wondered how loan and mortgage companies decide whether or not to lend you money when you apply for a loan? For nearly all, the decision is based on one version or another of a 'credit score' based on your credit report... (read more)

5 Ways To Raise Credit Score
It's not as hard as you think to raise credit score. It's a well known fact that lenders will give people with higher credit scores lower interest rates on mortgages, car loans and credit cards... (read more)

Senior Life Settlement-Uses and Applications
In a recent article in the National Underwriter (April, 2005) a Senior Life Settlement is depicted as an ingenious financial planning option available to consumers by providing access to secondary life insurance market through life insurance valuation... (read more)

Tips On How To Fix Bad Credit
Unfortunately, many people find themselves with bad credit. Bad credit is your personal financial history when it comes to things you have purchased on credit. Your credit score is becoming more and more important... (read more)

Its High Time for Lifetime Savings Accounts
I'm constantly reading articles on the internet and in financial magazines in which so-called financial planning experts express perplexity as to why about 30% of employees do not... (read more)

Insurance Credi Scoring An Ethical Issue
The issue at hand is the use of a consumer’s credit score as an underwriting tool for auto insurance rates... (read more)

Good FICO Credit Score? Tips to Getting the Most Out of Your Home Mortgage Loan With Good Credit
Sometimes so much is talked about how to solve the problem of having bad credit, but what about when you have an excellent credit rating? Good credit is considered to be a credit score of 650 or higher... (read more)

Publicity: Show a Reporter You Care by Inviting Them to Fact-Check
Just like a financial planning client fears not having enough money for retirement, reporters fear getting their facts wrong in print.Inaccuracy isn't tolerated in newspapers or magazines... (read more)

Credit Help for Real Estate Financing: Five Categories of Your Credit Score
1. Payment History -- 35%The number of accounts paid as agreed and a good payment history give you a higher score.Negative points lower credit scores because of 30 days, 60 days, and 90 days late on any debt... (read more)

Boost Your Credit Score
Boost your credit score by collecting all your bills and financial papers and giving them a spring cleaning, regardless of the time of year... (read more)

How Credit Scoring Works
The all important credit score! It determines the amount of loan you can get, it determines the interest rate at which you are charged for a loan, etc... (read more)

3 Simple Ways to Use Online Credit Reports to Improve Your Personal Credit
Like most Americans you may be skeptical of why an unseen online agency would want to? elp?you by checking your credit score for free... (read more)

The Dreaded Direct Question
(Please have a glass of water within reach before reading this article.)Your personal financial planning is the topic of discussion here today, but not quite yet. First I would like to bring your attention to the issue of bragging... (read more)

Online Credit Report and Online Credit Reports
Online credit reports are easily accessible to those interested in viewing them. If you have wondered about what kind of credit score you have, you can go on the Internet and look at your online credit report... (read more)

Defining Moment
Do you know your audiences? I mean really know them. I?e just been working on a project for a client to help him position his financial planning business and to determine who his key audiences are... (read more)

Credit Scoring: What You Dont Know Can Hurt You
You've probably heard the term credit scoring. You may have some idea that your credit score can have an effect on your life. For example, you may understand that when you apply for a mortgage, the mortgage company will check out your credit score... (read more)

Save Money and Lower your Payments by Improving or Repairing Your Credit
Having a better credit score not only represents easier access to money from lending institutions, but more importantly represents instant money in your pocket... (read more)

Landlords Dance The FICO Fandango
Fair Isaac Corporation is the creator of the FICO credit score that is used today by most lenders to evaluate consumer credit risk. FICO scores range from a poor credit low of 500 to a best credit rating of 850... (read more)

Good Credit -- Essential for the Prospective Home Buyer
Credit is a funny thing. It can be a useful tool in the hands of an informed individual, or a weight of burden to the unsuspecting. One thing is for certain, you must have a decent credit score to attain a quality mortgage loan... (read more)

Five Reasons to Repair Your Credit Score - You Can Do It Yourself
There are multiple reasons that tell us why we should have a 700+ Credit Score, but these five facts will definitely give you the big picture and hopefully will drive you to want to fix your credit score starting today... (read more)

Credit Cards Can Help You Get Out Of Debt
Your credit rating / credit score is based upon how you have dealt with credit previously. If you have always paid the full amount owing and never missed a payment then your credit score will be high... (read more)

Bad Credit Personal Loan and Bad Credit Loans
Bad credit personal loans are widely available these days. These are personal loans marketed to individuals with a poor credit score or poor credit history... (read more)