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Good Bad FICO Credit Score Range

March 2nd, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Good Bad Credit Score

If you have ever gone for requesting a loan online, then you must be wondering how it was cleared that fast whereas you’re contemporary loan receiver is still waiting for the same amount to be cleared. The answer is in your FICO credit score.

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In general, this credit score is generated by algorithmic formula which is top secret. This involves comparison of the info provided in your credit report with that of another person, and the use of a certain comparison scale. This credit score range runs from 300 to 850, and can be used for mortgages, car loans, credit card rates, insurance rates, job offers, etc. Being a simple calculation, those who have lower credit scores get higher interest rates than those possessing higher FICO scores.

In order to standardize this process, the Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO), has developed the first good and bad credit score range using scales of certain standards for different parameters. It is accepted as a base platform by almost all credit scoring organizations of the world.

Generally the factors for credit scoring vary, but usually FICO scores above 700 are considered to be good credit scores. While lending, it is generally believed that the borrower is higher risk having credit scores between 600 and 700. If you are in this range, you will have to pay higher interest rates for your credit cards and insurance rates.

If you happen to fall below 599 to 300, you have a poor or even bad credit score. You will need to pay your bills on time and lower your total amount borrowed. Making late payments can cost you severely.

It’s not uncommon for your FICO credit score to drop a 100 points or more due to late payments. If you miss several payments in a row, your credit score could drop down the scale 200 to 300 points or more in a very short period of time.

There are 20 different factors as per FICO scoring model that affect the credit score. Your payment history narrates your recent activities and plays an important part of the score (about 35%). 30% of your total score is dependent on the amount you owe and the credit available. Length of credit history accounts for 15% of it. The number of credit accounts opened makes 10%. Your mix of credit types accounts for about another 10%.

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Odd Quirks that Will Give you Bad Credit

December 30th, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Good Bad Credit Score

MortgagesInVancouver.com Hi everyone, how are you? It’s Leah Coss with the Mortgage Centre. I wanted to go over credit scores, but most specifically, I want to talk about the crazy weird quirks that I see on a daily basis on peoples’ credit scores that just absolutely makes their score take a dump. It’s for the stupidest little reasons that they don’t even know about, or they weren’t paying attention, or bills got sent to the wrong address. There’s just weird things. So I wanted to go over the main four things that I come across that may be happening to you right now that you don’t even realize that is affecting your score in the most negative way possible. I’m talking scores of 540 when you should be trying to aim for 680 or above. OK, 540 is very bad, it limits your lenders to like one, if that. In fact, at that point, you are probably looking at private financing. So for those of you who know your score is bad, get your actual report so you can take a look and see if any of these things are on there. If you don’t know your score, but you think it might be bad, go and get your score. You can buy them online, or if you are unsure of your score, just come to me, we can do an application up and see if you qualify for a mortgage. And if you don’t, based on credit, then I can counsel you from there. But, OK, so here are some the crazy things that I see that affect your score in the most negative ways. First one is credit cards. Obviously people are like, “Oh no, credit cards

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How To Get In The Better Credit Rating Levels?

August 25th, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Good Bad Credit Score

In case you have a bad credit score, you sure would want to learn how long it will take to correct your bad credit. You’d like your score to be in the higher credit score range than where you stand right now. You have desires one day of buying a home and would wish to be eligible for a a low rate mortgage loan.

Or else you have a very low credit rating and you are paying a high double digit monthly interest on your car finance loan. You’d like to learn how long for your credit score to raise so you can re-finance at a lower rate of interest and lower your payment amount so you can view your balance drop from month to month.
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Many reasons exist why you would likely desire to improve your credit score. It won’t happen immediately however with the ideal financial behavior you can obtain a better credit standing and get better rates of interest. Avoid credit repair businesses which promise they can quickly transform your FICO by fifty to one hundred points in thirty days or less.

There are tons of scams around when it comes to repairing credit. They prey on your desperate condition to save cash and qualify for a home or car finance loan. Do your research before you provide all of these companies your hard earned dollars.

So how do you find the higher credit rating ranges? Number one is pay out all of your expenses promptly. Don’t make delayed monthly payments. This is the most unfortunate action you can take for your credit ratings. Over 1/3rd of your credit score depends upon your payment history.

The next greatest factor is how much you must pay back to your loan companies. If all your credit cards and department store cards have reached their limit you’ll need to get these balances reduced to get a better credit score. The purpose is to be below 25% credit score use. So if you have a $1000 limit charge card, you would like to keep the balance under $250.

Another greatest factor to get into the better credit rating ranges is how long your accounts have been launched; longer the better. You need to have company accounts in your credit file 6, 10, 25 years old and longer.

Working on these three credit rating factors alone will greatly enhance your Experian, Equifax, and Transunion credit scores. The better you get at paying out your debts on time then the more your credit improves. You will definitely see advancements in your score over a 7 to 12 month period. You may use free credit monitoring tools like Credit Karma to keep an eye on your progress.

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Is Pulling Your Credit Report/Score Bad?

June 19th, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Good Bad Credit Score

LeahCoss.ca Hi, everyone. How are you? It’s Leah Coss with The Mortgage Center, and I wanted to talk about pulling credit. Is it bad? Is it going to hurt my score? What’s the situation with that? Well, it really actually depends on what your score is now, upon whether it’s going to hurt you. For people with good credit, 680 or above, even 650 and above. For the most part, if I pull your credit, which is called a hard pull, or any institution like a car dealership, the banks, a mortgage broker. If we pull your credit for the purpose of wanting to know what your credit is for a purchasing reason, then it won’t really hurt you. You could probably pull your credit five, six times in a year. It’s really not going to affect you at all. The reasoning is your credit is good and a hard pull, it’s so miniscule compared to the other things that affect your credit. However though, if your credit is bad, if it’s 650 or below, if you’re around the 600 mark, it is devastating to your credit if it’s pulled. Because what that’s telling the credit bureau is this person has horrible credit. There’s no way that they don’t know that their credit is this bad. And therefore, they’re still trying to get more credit. They’re trying to get a credit card, or they’re trying to get a mortgage or a car. And so, they go, “This person just needs to be kyboshed. They need to be put… stopped in their tracks on trying to attain more credit.” So they kill it, and for that reason, if someone comes to me

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A Good Credt Score Isn’t Always Enough

April 12th, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Good Bad Credit Score

LeahCoss.ca Hi everyone. How are you! It is Leah Coss with the Mortgage Center. Another credit myth for you. If you have a good credit score, that doesn’t necessarily mean you can get a mortgage. Many of you have great credit scores out there. But it doesn’t mean that a bank wants to invest their money with you, reason being is the credit score is just basically a mathematical algorithm that the Credit Bureau has come up with. And what it said is based on the credit that you do have and how long you’ve had that credit for, you have been making the payments on time and you are doing fine, therefore your credit score is good. But if your credit history only goes back six months, one year, a year and a half, that’s not long enough for most banks or lenders. And they want a minimum of two years history. So that’s the first thing. The second thing is if you only have one credit line meaning one credit card or one line of credit or one car loan, or one student loan and just that, that’s not overly impressing the banks. They want to see multiple lines on there to show that you can in fact handle it. They also want to make sure that if you have a credit card for example, and you only have one or two, you [inaudible] over 0. To say that you can manage 0 dollars is again not overly impressing a bank who is about to lend you hundreds of thousands of dollars. So if you have a good credit score and you have been declined, that’s probably the reason. But the good news is it is

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Will my boyfirends bad credit affect my credit if we marry?

March 22nd, 2011 by admin | 2 Comments | Filed in Good Bad Credit Score

I live in Wisconsin, which is a community property state. I have very good credit but my boyfriend does not. Will his bad credit affect my credit score if er marry in Wisconsin or any other community property state? Will I be liable for debts that were incurred before we marries? What if we marry somewhere else but then down the line move to a non-community property state?
So if I were to apply for a credit card while we were married, would they take into account his credit history?
What if we decided to purchase a house while were were married…? Same rules apply as if I were applying for a credit card? Thanks for all of your answers!

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He has good credit, good paying job I have bad credit, low paying job can we get a mortgage loan together?

March 17th, 2011 by admin | 6 Comments | Filed in Good Bad Credit Score

We are engaged and would like to blend our families and lives. He owns a home and uses it as rental income. he has been preapproved for a second mortgage loan at 220k. He has good credit history, score of 750 and makes 70k. The house’s we like are about 280k. I have fair credit and only make 18k a year. I have a school loan I make payments on, My car will be paid off in 3 months and the bad debt is settled but still I have a low score of about 400. What can I do to help us get a house? Will anybody consider my income, and is my income enough to get the additional 60k loan we need for a home?

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where can i get my credit score and see if my credit is good or bad most of the websites?

January 29th, 2011 by admin | 5 Comments | Filed in Good Bad Credit Score

they charge in order for you to see your score is there any website where it is free or where i can see my credit score im 21 years old and i dont have much credit history i just have a credit card from Capital One and one bill which is my phone is it possible that it might take time for my credit to get good or average because i been applying for credit in stores like radio shack best buy and Frys electronics and not gotten approve why is this???

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is 613 a good credit score?

December 22nd, 2010 by admin | 8 Comments | Filed in Good Bad Credit Score

About 3 months ago I had a week credit score of 450 because I had no credit history. I took out a secured credit card from Bank of America, and 3 months later after succesfully paying my bill on time, my score has gone up to 613. Do you guys think this is a good score? I mainly ask this because I am in search of a loan for a used vehicle. My parents have really bad credit so I can’t rely on a co-signer. So my goal is to get approved on my own.

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