Product DescriptionK. Patrice Williams is also the author of 6 Simple Steps to Avoid Foreclosure. She offers practical legal strategies for increasing your FICO score and improving your credit history going forward. She points out the too-good-to-be-true credit repair agencies you should avoid, and offers real credit repair techniques and alternatives [...]

How much should i charge on my secured credit card to get the best credit rating?
I can charge up to $500 on my secured credit card and want to know how much should I charge on my secured credit card to get the best credit rating. I need to build credit because I got [...]

Product DescriptionIt’s easy to get a credit card-which means it’s just as easy to rack up a ton of debt. But paying off these debts doesn’t have to begin with a trip to the credit counselor. There are plenty of ways in which someone can lessen their debt on their own-they just need to learn [...]

I recently went over my credit limit by $10 and noticed that the credit card account (Cap One) was reported as delinquent on my equifax credit report? How can this happen and what are the consequences to my credit rating/score? Thanks for your response.

I am looking to raise my credit score and I have been turned down buy credit card companies and I spoke with someone that said I could get a pre approved credit card but i thought all credit cards were pre approved. Please help me I need to raise my credit score. Thanks

I’ve opened a few credit cards lately, but don’t plan on using them, only for emergencies. Will just having 4 or 5 credit cars available for my use somehow hurt my credit score, or credit in general for future loans I might want?

I am thinking about allowing a credit counseling service (Take Charge America) to consolidate all my unsecured credit. Will this help or hurt my credit rating once I complete the program in about 3.5 years?

I have a credit card with a credit limit of $12,500. I have not only been making the payments each month, but I have been paying off my monthly balance at the end of each month consistently. My father told me that, given the situation of today’s financial market, the bank can decide [...]

I live in the State of Georgia and am being sued over an old credit card that I defaulted on. It has been more than 4 years but less than 6 years since the date of default, so depending on whether credit card debt is considered an open account or a written contract in [...]

Product Description“Increase the quality of your life by learning what the credit bureaus and banks don’t want you to know” In order to write this book we interviewed hundreds of people to find out what people wanted to know about credit and what they needed to know but didn’t. We took their [...]