Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Why Care About Your Credit Score?

Most people can't afford to make the big purchases in life (i.e. house, car, or business) without looking to some sort of a loan or financing for help.  When applying for a loan, your credit score is able to give a quick assessment of how much risk you pose to the person or company lending you the money.


Your FICO Credit Score (median score between the Equifax, Transunion, and Experian scores) takes into account your past and present borrowing history including magnitude, payment history, and any public records such as a personal bankruptcy.  The higher your credit score, the less risk you pose to your lender, and the less your cost of borrowing will be.

Ultimately, you should take care of your credit score so that your cost of borrowing will be as low as possible given the amount of assets you own and income you make.  However, if you have plenty of cash, you can just buy anything you want with "straight cash homey."  After all, that's how Randy Moss rolls:

53 comments:

  1. Welcome to my blog! Please leave your comments below...

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  2. lol at the video. I'm working in my credit score, I want to buy a home in the future =), Good stuff you have here, I'm following you

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  3. My credit score could use some improving

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  4. Good to know mate - also great vid.

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  5. cheers dude, this is some good stuff, I appreciate the info.
    followin!

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  6. Straight cash never steered anyone wrong haha

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  7. I'm kind of glad i havent even started on credit yet.

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  8. Better to not have any loan at all !
    Good looking blog by the way :)

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  9. Here in Belgium there is a totally different system on loans and credit. I think it is much stricter and rigid than the U.S. system.

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  10. Jeez Randy, way to keep it classy.

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  11. Nice blog man , lol'd at the video..

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  12. True.
    good read! :) ill follow you to check out updates!

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  13. Hahaa :D That video cracked me up.

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  14. Good reminder that we should always pay back our loans on time.

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  15. good post, its true you need a good credit score. or straight cash homey!

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  16. i don't even know my credit score.. probably not a good sign ^^

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  17. So high credit score means less cost for borrowing? Or just that more people will be willing to lend you money?

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  18. I want a home of my own one day...but my boyfriend has a good job where we live (Long Island, NY), and even small homes are really expensive. Maybe one day :(

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  19. Thanks for the info. I need to learn more about credit repair.

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  20. I've had my credit score checked a few times by apartment rental offices.

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  21. credit score is hard to understand because its so intangible. nice post

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  22. Great post! I really needed the info. Thnks!

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  23. Everybody should care about his credit score but it's so easy to lower it. Even if you're working hard for your money, you could only be late in one of your payment and it would be already too late!

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  24. Getting loans for cars or homes are probably very low priority in this economic mess.

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  25. Good work, unfortunately I don't live in the states

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  26. My creditscore is great! I also like the video.

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  27. i've actually never looked up my credit score. i havent had a problem getting credit anywhere though so no biggie i guess, right?

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  28. lol, is that randy moss? hilarious.

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  29. person in the video got it all haha

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  30. Glad we dropped that bum. I never liked him, he was always too cocky./

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  31. Credit score is very important in life :)

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  32. If my credit is purposely set low, does it affect my credit score? since I am not making "big" loans

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  33. i have very little credit, hopefully your posts can help me get some

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  34. haha straight cash money! that's what i'm talking about

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