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Credit Score - What Is It?

What is my score on my credit report?

Discover what is a credit score and how it affects your credit. Find cool information about your credit report too.

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Your score is now the most important factor that lenders use to evaluate your creditworthiness. This score is a three digit score calculated by the credit bureaus from your credit history.

The score was invented by Fair Isaac, a company that created a way to predict your chances of credit failure using just your credit report. This system has gained more popularity in recent years and now each of the three main credit bureaus, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion uses Fair Isaac's system to calculate their version of your score.

Nowadays, people applying for home loans or car loans are nothing but a "number" - their score. For example, our credit scores at the time of this writing were TransUnion: 735, Experian: 715, and Equifax: 722.

Want to know what your numbers are? .

On each credit report are four or five risk factors that determine that particular credit report’s score.

Risk Factors That Affect Credit Report

Too many accounts with balances
Proportion of balances to credit limit too high
Length of time accounts have been established
Serious delinquency and public records or collection filed
Too many revolving accounts

There are more risk factors, but the above list seems to occur most often.

Few Adjustments Can Raise Credit Report Score in Credit Repair

Stop late payments
Take care of collection accounts
Lower high balances on revolving accounts
Too many inquiries
Credit history is too short
No credit history

You need to know what is the cause of the low score and what you may be able to do to improve it in your credit repair. Are you ready to find out what your score is? .

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