Book description
Today, a good credit score is essential for getting decent terms on credit--or for getting credit at all. But that's just the beginning: Your credit score rating can be reviewed by everyone from employers to cell phone carriers. Now, MSNBC/L.A. Times journalist Liz Weston has thoroughly updated her best-selling guide to credit scores, with crucial new information for protecting (or rebuilding) yours. Your Credit Score, Fourth Edition thoroughly covers brand-new laws changing everything from how your credit score can be used to how you can communicate with collectors. This edition also adds simple graphics revealing exactly how much skipped payments, bankruptcies, and other actions will lower your credit ratings, and how long it takes to rebound. You'll find new information on "FAKO" alternative scores, expanded coverage of short sales, foreclosures, the new FICO 8 Mortgage Score, and when to "walk away" from a mortgage. Learn how to protect yourself against new credit risks from social networking and mobile banking and how to safeguard against unethical or illegal use of credit scores by employers. Weston updates her expert guidance on using FICO 08 to raise your score, fighting lower limits and higher rates, maintaining the right mix of cards and balances, bouncing back from bad credit, choosing credit "solutions" that help, not hurt… and much more!
Table of contents
- Praise for the Previous Edition of Your Credit Score
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Introduction
- 1. Why Your Credit Score Matters
- 2. How Credit Scoring Works
- 3. FICO Versus “FAKO”—Competitors to the Leading Score
- 4. Improving Your Score—The Right Way
- 5. Credit-Scoring Myths
- 6. Coping with a Credit Crisis
- 7. Rebuilding Your Score After a Credit Disaster
- 8. Identity Theft and Your Credit
- 9. Emergency! Fixing Your Credit Score Fast
- 10. Insurance and Your Credit Score
- 11. Can Bad Credit Cost You a Job?
- 12. Keeping Your Score Healthy
- Index
- Footnotes
Product information
- Title: Your Credit Score: How to Improve the 3-Digit Number That Shapes Your Financial Future, Fourth Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2011
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780132823500
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