Increasing your credit card limit in no way requires that you increase your debt. On the contrary, it is an opportunity to actually improve your credit and make your financial life easier.
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Should You Increase Your Credit Card Limit?
February 9th, 2012 · No Comments · Credit Cards
Tags: credit·Credit card·credit card limit·Credit Cards·Credit Score·Credit Utilization·Emergency Funds·increase credit card limit
Credit Bureau Reporting an Equity Line of Credit as Revolving Instead of Installment
January 31st, 2012 · 2 Comments · Mortgages
Q. Is it possible to get my Line of Credit that’s reporting to the bureaus as a “Revolving” account type to reporting as an “Installment” account? It’s killing my FICO scores! A. A “revolving” account is one where the balance fluctuates due to payments or withdrawals against the available credit limit. A credit card is [...]
Tags: credit bureau·credit report·Credit Score·equity line of credit·installment loan·revolving account
4 Ways to Start Improving Your Credit Now
January 4th, 2012 · No Comments · Credit Repair
To get the year started off right, explore four simple ways you could start improving your credit right now:
Tags: authorized user·credit·Credit Cards·Credit Repair·credit report·Credit Score·debt
Just How Harmful is a Debt ‘In Collections’ to Your Credit Report?
December 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · Credit Repair
If you have yet to reach the six-month delinquency mark on a debt, avoid it at all cost. Try to work out some sort of payment arrangement that is acceptable to both you and the lender.
Tags: charge-off·credit·Credit Bureaus·Credit Repair·credit report·Credit Score·debt·in collections
