ABOUT CREDIT REPAIR

In the United States, a credit score is a number typically between 300 and 850, based on a statistical analyses of a person’s credit files, to represent the creditworthiness of that person, which is the likelihood that the person will pay his or her bills. A credit score is primarily based on credit report information, typically from the three major credit reporting agencies.

Lenders, such as banks and credit cards companies, use credit scores to evaluate the potential risk posed by lending money to consumers and to mitigate losses due to bad debt. Lenders use credit scores to determine who qualifies for a loan, at what interest rate, and what credit limits. The use of credit or identity scoring prior to authorizing access or granting credit is an implementation of a trusted system. While the most widely known score in the U.S. is FICO, there are many others, such as NextGen and VantageScore.

When people have bad credit, this can affect many different areas of their lives. Sometimes, people may not realize that they have bad credit until it is too late. When this happens, many people will try to get credit repair work done as soon as possible. Unfortunately, your credit is not like your car, and it can’t simply be brought in to the credit repair shop. Work that is done in the field of credit repair is not instantaneous, and it will take time to build one’s credit back up. However, credit repair work is extremely important, especially for those that have very poor credit. This is because many things in a person’s life will come to be affected by his or her credit. In order to avoid hardship later, it is important to get credit repair work taken care of as early on as possible.

Credit repair is not just helpful for those who have bad credit. What many people do not know is that they do not start off their lives with credit. This is not something that is given automatically to a person, and with each default a little more is taken away. Individuals that have no credit history can also benefit from credit repair work, because in the eyes of many institutions and establishments, these people may be even worse than the people with bad credit. These are individuals that have no credit and will not have any until they establish some. Simple credit repair tactics can work to improve one’s score from a low or starting number, to a number that is more easily accepted by institutions and places that are requiring the individual to have an established and good credit history.

Individuals in Texas with no credit will likely need to use different tactics when it comes to gaining credit from their credit repair work as opposed to individuals that need credit repair work because of their established low credit score. These methods are specific to the situations because they accomplish different things. Credit repair can even be performed on individuals that have moderate to good credit scores, simply to improve their credit score even more. Almost everyone can benefit from credit repair, if, it is used in the right manner.

Credit scores are designed to measure the risk of default by taking into account various factors in a person’s financial history. Although the exact formulas for calculating credit scores are closely guarded secrets, Fair Isaac has disclosed the following components and the approximate weighted contribution of each:

• 35%, punctuality of payment in the past.
• 30%, the amount of debt, expressed as the ratio of current revolving debt to total available revolving credit.
• 15%, length of credit history.
• 10%, types of credit used.
• 10%, recent search for credit and amount of credit obtained recently.

Fair Isaac does not use the same scorecard for everyone. The scorecards are segmented so that there are over 100 different scoring models that are applied to different individuals based on different ranges of input values. The implication of this segmentation are that while the approximate weighted contribution above may be an average across all scorecards, individuals receive different scores or weightings based on the scorecard segmentation in which they fall. Some consumers have noticed their scores decreasing by small amounts for no apparent reason.

A FICO score generally ranges from 300 to 850. It exhibits a left-skewed distribution with a US median around 725. Generally, 660 is regarded as potentially sub-prime and represents and important break point for credit worthiness. The performance of the scores is monitored and the scores are periodically aligned so that a credit grantor normally doesn’t need to be concerned about which scorecard was employed. Each individual has three credit scores for any given scoring model because the three credit agencies have their own, independent databases. These databases are independent of each other and may contain entirely different data. Many lenders will check an applicant’s score from each bureau and use the median score to determine the applicant’s credit worthiness.

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A+ Credit Repair

Beaumont, Texas - Office Phone: 409-347-1200
Liberty, Texas - Office Phone: 936-334-8000
Cleveland, Texas - Office Phone: 281-592-8383

If you would like assistance with a debt or credit related matter, feel free to call us, even if you live outside the State of Texas. If you live in Texas, contact our office nearest you to schedule a free initial consultation today!

The services of A+ Credit Repair may not be available in all states. We can help consumers with credit reports that are inaccurate, misleading, unverifiable, untimely, incomplete or that otherwise contain incorrect information. All testimonials are from actual clients. Individual results may vary.

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