How to Improve My Poor Credit Score
Here are a couple tips and tricks dealing with repairing poor credit scores.
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Do not have your credit ran excessively. This will be considered as a "hard hit" on your credit report, which is listed not only to any business's who check your report, but there is a point deduction for each hit. You will not suffer a penalty for checking your own credit, known as a "soft hit" and it is recommended to do so. You are entitled to view your own credit report through the three major bureaus once every 12 months.
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Do not pay off an entire loan at once, or in a short period of time. Simply put, the longer you have revolving credit active, the better your credit score will be. It does no good to continuously trade in cars or pay off creditors quickly. The longer a loan term is with payments made on time, the better your score will be. Each time you get rid of a loan and start a new one, you must begin again, appearing not to have long term credit reliability.
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Close out accounts with high limits that are inactive and not being used. Believe it or not, this will lower your credit score. A person who has $50,000.00 in available and unused credit becomes a risk. When checking your credit report and reading the term "inactive" for account status, be sure to cancel the line of credit.
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Stay away from limits on loans and credit cards. If you have, say, six credit cards near their limit, you have no available credit to you, which will in fact bring your credit score down quite a bit. The farther you are from the limits, the higher your score will be. Keep in mind that if you do go over your limit, it is reported and remains on your credit report no matter what the current balance is. Your highest balance is recorded to view to possible creditors in the future.
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Cosigning a loan for someone else can have a very negative effect on your score. Although you have followed all of the rules and have done your best, should the person you cosigned for fault in any way, it will go against your own credit. If this person should be over 30 days late, it will be reported as your mishap. Any repossessions, foreclosures and collections in someone else's name that you cosigned for will count against you as if this debt was your own. Protect yourself by not cosigning in the first place.
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Follow the link in the resource section below to get a free credit report and score.
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