Archive for April, 2006

Credit “Clutter”–Clean it up!

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

One of the simplest ways to improve your credit is to “clean up” unnecessary accounts that you have open. Since most consumers are inundated with pre-qualified/approved offers and offers of instant credit at many retailers, it’s easy to end up with numerous credit accounts that you don’t really need or use. Often […]

“New” VantageScore: Same Dance, Different Tune

Sunday, April 9th, 2006

The credit bureaus have recently announced they are adopting a new scoring method for consumer credit histories in order to have “more uniform” scores across the three bureaus and provide better “predictors” of credit risk. Yeah, right! A Waltz is a waltz, whether the tune is Blue Danube or not.
Bottom line, just because […]