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18 Jun 2009Good credit is important in all of our lives and will only increase in importance as we get older.
Whenever you apply for a job, apartment, credit card or loan, your credit will be viewed and dissected. It’s important that you have good credit in order to increase your chances of accomplishing and succeeding in what you want.
Let’s go over a few tips to improve your credit score so that you can have the best chances of succeeding and improving your life in areas that require a good credit score.
First, reduce your debt-to-credit ratio as much as you possibly can. This also means that you should stay away from your maximum credit limit. Although you may be doing this completely responsibly, many companies will look at this and interpret it as you trying to borrow as much money as you possibly can which will not look good. Try to keep your balances under 50% of your credit limit.
Next, take a look at your report and check for errors. This can happen quite often when a utility company or lender might report one of your payments late. These kinds of errors can have an effect on your credit later on.
In addition to the last point, you want to make sure you are making all your current payment on time. Late payments that have occurred recently have more of an impact than late payments that occurred many years ago.
This is also just good finance sense but you want to pay off your debt as much as possible. Do not just movie it or transfer it between your many accounts.
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