Archive for credit cards
Top 5 financial mistakes
Posted by: | CommentsRead this and learn about the top five Financial mistakes that many people make and which can lead to financial hardships.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we never made any financial mistakes, if we did everything right and made all the right decisions at the right time? Do you know what would happen, we would all wind up rich?
The only thing standing between financial independence and us is financial mistakes.
4 steps to learn how to deal with credit card collectors
Posted by: | CommentsRead this and quickly learn how to deal with credit card collectors, lower your interest rates and get your credit cards paid off.
Are you behind in your credit card payments? It is easy to do especially now days with credit card interest rates going up to 29.9% while the credit card companies get their money at 1% or less. Does this seem fair? And on top of this if your payment doesn’t get there on time they will tack on fees and service charges.
Collection calls will start to come and you will literally get calls every day at all times of day. Understand that every credit card company has a separate department, which does nothing but collection is a totally different group of people with a different mindset and no compassion.
4 bad spending habits
Posted by: | CommentsRead this and learn how to break these 4 bad spending habits and get your finances under control this year.
All we heard in the news media during this entire fall was gloom and doom regarding the retail merchandisers. “This is going to be a bad year”. Everybody said that this would be the worst year in the last 20 years for shopping this holiday season, but the spending during this last holiday season was actually by 3% over the previous year. And guess what, the news media hardly mentioned it.
People still like to spend money. It’s what I call spending habits. They are good spending habits such as buying food, clothes on occasion, gas for your car, paying your mortgage, and utility bills.
Cards credit limit increase
Posted by: | CommentsCards credit limit increase can quickly increase your credit rating
Increasing your credit limits on the cards you currently have can actually be a good idea if you are interested in increasing your credit score. Is not unheard of for people to have unsecured credit limits in the $70,000-$100,000 range.
Increasing your credit card limit can increase your credit score
0 APR credit cards
Posted by: | CommentsRead this andyou can get several 0 APR credit cards and use them to quickly get yourself out of debt.
Does this sound like a great deal or what? Well I guess so. It sounds like a great deal to me. This wouldn’t be some kind of a gimmick would it, just to get you to sign up for their credit card. Actually it is a gimmick but a gimmick that you can use to your advantage.
Unfortunately, many people will get these low interest credit cards and while they continue to make payments on their high interest credit cards will put all of their new purchases and cash advances on the low ones and then 6 to 12 months later when the low percentage expires and the card goes up to the “normal rate” they wind up with another high interest credit card with a large balance on their hands. Not good.
0 credit cards
Posted by: | CommentsRead this and learn how to get 0 credit cards and use these to get yourself out of debt
The interest rate for credit cards is now approaching just under 30%, which to most Americans is an absolute outrage. My former friends in the mob used to charge these kind of interest rates and they all went to jail for it. And to add insult to injury, now we find out that these banks are paying little or no interest themselves for the money that they are lending to us.
But we do have an option and it comes in the mail in the form of another credit card offer. The new offer will many times say, transfer the balance from your other credit cards to our card and receive 0% interest for a period of 6 to 12 months.
Credit card cash advance
Posted by: | CommentsRead this and learn how a credit card cash advance can help you to get out of debt once and for all.
A cash advance on your credit card can be a very convenient option but at the same time is what I like to call a debt trap. Credit card companies these days are charging almost 30% interest and it is to their benefit to get you to borrow as much money as possible.
Keep in mind that the credit card companies are paying little or no interest on the money themselves that they are lending to you. How would you like to get money at no cost to you and lend it out at 30% interest? Just form your own credit card company. Loan sharks used to get arrested for charging that kind of interest so what they did was form their own credit card companies and now loan sharking is legal.
7 Steps to Raise My Credit Score
Posted by: | CommentsRaise my credit score is something you can do. Read this and quickly learn how.
Have you ever tried to buy something on credit only to find out that you have a low credit score? If so there are ways to improve your score.
Number 1. Get a copy of your credit report from all three credit bureaus: Equifax, Transunion, and Experian. It is important to get the score from all three and then take the average and that is your score.
Number 2. Look for errors, omissions and for items that do not belong to you. If someone has stolen your identity and bought things using your credit and then not made the payments this could be your problem. Have the errors removed from your report and you have a right to do this when a credit bureau confirms that it isn’t yours or if they can’t prove that it is. This step alone could raise your credit score by a significant amount and quickly.
6 Steps to Raising Bad Credit Scores
Posted by: | CommentsRead this and quickly learn how Bad credit scores can be turned into good credit scores.
Have you been told that your credit scores to low to grant you a loan? If so, your only alternative is to raise your credit score, which can be done perhaps easier than you think. However, this is not an overnight project and it is going to take a little bit of time, generally several months but take heart it can be done if you are willing to do it.
6 Steps to raise bad credit score.
Credit Report Scores
Posted by: | CommentsRead this and quickly learn that Credit report scores can be easily raised if you just know how.
Whenever anyone applies for credit, whether they want to buy a new car, boat or a house, lenders will always take into consideration what risk they are taking in making the loan. What they go by is the average of the scores of the three main credit-reporting agencies. This credit score will provide the best guide to risk. Lending institutions know that there is a risk involved in any loan and they use the credit bureaus to evaluate that risk with each person or company that they money to.
What lenders use to evaluate your credit is the score, which comes back in a number. Below 600 being poor and above 700 being good. If your credit score is above 700 you are considered to be a good risk and depending on other circumstances involved your chances of securing a loan are very good. If your score is below 600 no matter what the circumstances are your chances of securing a loan are very poor. People can save themselves a lot of time and effort if they will obtain their own credit report score before they shop for a major purchase.
