Category Archives: Credit Repair
How To Buy A Car When You’re Broke And Your Credit Score Is Terrible
These days, everyone is living paycheck to paycheck, and in South Florida, the only way to get to your job and your gigs is with a car. The financially prudent thing to do is to drive your old car until it will no longer budge. Of course, you are probably already doing that, which… Read More »
Credit Reports Show Fewer Debts In Collections, Helping Consumers Improve Their Creditworthiness
The three years since the COVID-19 pandemic have brought an onslaught of fear, not only existential dread about our own mortality and about the fragility of the natural ecosystem and of political institutions, but also more mundane worries about whether we can pay our bills this month while keeping up with the minimum payments… Read More »
If Only Buy Now Pay Later Helped Your Credit Score
They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and the financial hardships brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath have led consumers and businesses to get creative with ways to stay financially solvent. Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services have increased their popularity exponentially over the past several years. BNPL allows… Read More »
Repairing Your Credit After A Military Scam
In the long term, joining the military is a wise financial investment. When you retire from a military career, you have access to a pension, but you are also young and healthy enough to look forward to a long professional career as a civilian, and your experiences in the Armed Forces will have enabled… Read More »
What Is The Difference Between Co-Signing And Adding An Authorized User?
Many consumers consider it a priority to improve their credit scores, since this enables them to qualify for loans and increase the credit limit on their credit cards. Credit repair companies offer to use a variety of tactics to boost your credit score quickly. If they are only using legitimate means, then all of… Read More »
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Urges Credit Reporting Agencies To Fix Errors On Consumers’ Credit Reports Promptly
Anyone who has been in debt for a while, which is almost everyone two-and-a-half years after the COVID-19 pandemic first arrived in Florida, has seen advertisements by companies that promise to improve your credit score quickly for a price. While some of these are outright scams, others can genuinely give your credit score a… Read More »
Credit Karma Agrees To $3 Million Settlement Over Deceptive “Pre-Approved” Credit Card Offers
It isn’t just your imagination that a big part of your debt problem is not due to lack of discipline over your spending or to you not working hard enough but to policies that make it difficult for all except the wealthiest of working people to access affordable financial products. You might be doing… Read More »
Can Second Chance Credit Cards Help You Rebuild Your Credit?
Filing for bankruptcy can lower your credit score, but not everyone who has trouble qualifying for credit cards has a history of bankruptcy filings. The more common problem is that it is hard to get started building your credit, especially in an economy where most people who work full-time live paycheck to paycheck. To… Read More »
Second Chance Banking Can Help You Rebuild Your Finances
Your credit card has a low credit limit? Your auto loan has a high interest rate? Your credit score hasn’t budged even though you have been making payments on time, even though you have been making all the payments on your buy now pay later (BNPL) purchases for more than a year? Those all… Read More »
3 Hard Truths About Credit Repair
Numbers are convenient for setting goals. Perhaps you want the scale to read a certain number by this time next year, you want to walk a certain number of steps each day, or you want to save a certain amount of money in an emergency fund. Those numbers don’t tell the whole story, though. … Read More »