Wise Credit Decisions
October 6, 2008 · Print This Article
When it comes to personal finance, there’s a lot more to consider than just what you make and how you spend it. There’s an essential matter that influences and even controls factors to a large degree beyond what you choose to buy and how you distribute your income to handle the bills on a monthly basis. In regards to loan payments, insurance, your mortgage, credit cards, and possibly several other items, there’s the issue of credit that unites these seemingly disparate items and controls the rates that are applied to them.
Indeed, credit greatly influences the costs of bills. For those that don’t recognize it, they could be spending a whole lot more than they should be because their credit scores are low. There are even those that find themselves incapable of obtaining basic loans or having to spend significantly more to obtain them. Insurance too, is affected; without a good credit score, your premiums could be extremely high and you’d have no idea what is causing them to be inflated when your driving record is clean.
Credit goes a far way to influence and even control the various aspects that are attributed to making purchases, loans, bank accounts, and payments. Without a good credit score, you could be facing some serious financial difficulties just having to deal with the same basic issues as everyone else, so it pays to understand your credit and to know how to make it work for you.
Building a good credit score takes time. There’s plenty of considerations to take when approaching your credit, but the best way to start is to eliminate debt first. If you have several petty bills that are outstanding, you can take care of them individually and work towards clearing your name of debt. Even if this doesn’t immediately improve your score, it goes a long way towards setting the stage for a good value.
Beyond that, you can take the effort to obtain a credit card and use it to obtain good credit value. In fact, credit cards are one of the best ways to get a good credit score, but you have to use them wisely. Realize that a credit card is a huge responsibility, and utilize it within its proper range to ensure that you don’t end up paying fees for late payments or payments under the monthly required minimum. This is important, because without a consideration of how much you’re spending with the card, you can easily make having a credit card a debt nightmare rather than a boon to your finances.
Credit cards also come with issues of their own, depending on the issuer. Without a reputable company that gives you a clear, transparent policy, you could end up signing up with a card that inhibits you in the long run. Some cards require you to may minimum purchases in order to keep them, and others cost money on an annual basis. There are some that even are restricted to certain kinds of purchases and at a minimum value, but these are rare. Nonetheless, know what you’re getting into, and read the policy carefully so you don’t end up being hoodwinked.
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I recently have had some credit problems. I liked my credit cards waaay too much. I think the best thing you can do to recover is to allow yourself enough time to straighten everything all out. Nothing happens overnight, especially fixing a credit score.
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wait, it gets. Check out Silvio Gizel’s work on economics. It’s all coming from the interest. And no INTEREST IS NOT SOMETHING WE CAN’T DO WITHOUT.
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HAHA Stacy! Man, what a ripoff. Unbelievable that people buy into those fees.
The ‘investors’ have imaginary capital made from imaginary money printed-up out of nowhere, backed by nothing, and worth nothing. There’s too much focus on the trees and not the forest in this video. Simply put fiat currencies and publicly-subsidized pseudo-’private’ corporations are criminally fraudulent, this video doesn’t state this clearly from the beginning, and it’s the most critical thing for anyone to know.
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Kinda like another answer….but a really easy way is to take cash that you have on hand and open a "secured" credit card through your bank. Let it sit there. You'll gain points on your credit report for opening that line of credit. Also, to build your credit after that, make sure that if you use that card, that you don't use more than 50% of what you have on the card so your rating doesn't drop. You will then also be able to open an account with a store, but i wouldn't recommend getting trapped into using store cards since their interest rates are ridiculously high. Another option is Capital One, they have a credit card for people with no credit, you might want to look into that as well. Good luck!
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Stocks…the trick is finding good values and I’d probably hedge with a gold fund or by buy a stock that goes up with gold like AEM.
This was very very helpful !
i hate my credit card and i hate yours too!
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last yr. i screwed up on a plain secured card from my bank with some late payments it is now closed…i’m now really serious about improving my score the only negative items showing is my late payment history..but i paid them off..can i still try and start allover with another card or will they deny me???? anyone pls help thnxs!!!!
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Chase credit Cards are good cuase they offer alot of difforent plans.