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Your Credit Score, Your Money & What's at Stake (Updated Edition): How to Improve the 3-Digit Number that Shapes Your Financial Future

Your Credit Score, Your Money & What's at Stake (Updated Edition): How to Improve the 3-Digit Number that Shapes Your Financial Future
Author: Liz Pulliam Weston
Publisher: FT Press
Category: eBooks


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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 reviews
Sales Rank: 11256

Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: Updated
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1

Dewey Decimal Number: 332.743
ASIN: B001UID8LO

Publication Date: February 9, 2009
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-A great credit score can help you finish rich! Liz Pulliam Weston gives solid, easy-to-understand advice about how to improve your credit fast. Read this book and prosper.-

David Bach, bestselling author of The Automatic Millionaire and The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner

-Excellent book! Insightful, well written, and surprisingly interesting. Liz Pulliam Weston has done an outstanding job demystifying an often intimidating and frustrating topic for the benefit of all consumers.-

Eric Tyson, syndicated columnist and bestselling author of Personal Finance for Dummies

-No one makes complex financial information easy to understand like Liz Pulliam Weston. Her straight-talk and wise advice are invaluable to anyone with a credit card or check book-and that-s just about all of us.-

Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D., author of Nice Girls Don-t Get the Corner Office and Nice Girls Don-t Get Rich

-In a country where consumers increasingly pay more when they have bad credit, Liz Pulliam Weston-s book provides excellent tips and advice on ways to improve your credit history and raise your credit score. If you just apply one or two of her insightful suggestions, you-ll save many times the cost of this book.-

Ilyce R. Glink, financial reporter, talk show host, and bestselling author of 100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask

-Your credit score can save you money or cost you money-sometimes a lot of money. Yet, most people don-t even know their scores, much less know how to make them better. Liz Pulliam Weston can help you fix that. In this easy-to-understand guide you-ll learn how to make sure your score helps you get the best deal on loans and insurance. You can-t afford not to read it.-

Gerri Detweiler, consumer advocate and founder of UltimateCredit.com

The #1 Best-Selling Guide to Improving Your Credit Score...

Now Thoroughly Updated for the Financial Crisis!

In post-crash America, it-s tough to get credit...and even tougher to get rates and terms you can afford. That makes your credit score more important than ever before. Now, MSN Money/L.A. Times personal finance columnist Liz Pulliam Weston has updated her best-selling book on credit scores to show how you can maximize your score right now-and save yourself a fortune!

Weston reveals the tough new realities of borrowing and credit scoring, and shows why they aren-t going to change any time soon. She rips away the mystery surrounding credit scoring, including the FICO 08 overhaul, and tells you exactly how to use the new system to maximize your score.

You-ll learn how to fight back against lenders who want to lower your limits or raise your rates...bounce back from bad credit and bankruptcy...choose the right credit solutions and avoid options that only make things worse. One step at a t...



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5 out of 5 stars Everyone Needs to Read it   June 4, 2010
Bojan Tunguz (Greencastle, IN USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

For anyone living today in the US their credit score is one of the most important pieces of financial information that they can have. And yet, until just under a decade ago most regular consumers did not have an access to it. Even today this score is not easy to obtain and one must go through one of a few specialized agencies that provide it. However, since so much of your financial well being depends on having good credit, everyone should go through the effort of obtaining their credit score. Even if you don't use any credit cards and like to buy everything with cash, your credit score influences the kind of credit that you can get for your mortgage or car insurance.

This book helps you make sense of your credit score. It tells you where and how to obtain it, and what different numerical values of that score mean in practical terms. The book will also help you with a lot of good and useful advice on how to improve your credit rating. It will also dispel many myths that have become part of popular lore about how to improve your credit score, such as by closing several of your credit card accounts. It turns out that most of the time such action will have an adverse impact on your credit score.

The book also discusses such issues as personal bankruptcy - whether it is a right decision for you, what kind may make the most sense for your personal circumstances, and what sort of impact it will have on your credit rating in the long run.

You can also read here about how to deal with creditors, what your rights are as a consumer, and when it makes the most sense to pay off your debts even if they may be disputed.

The book is extremely readable and eminently practical. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in learning more about their credit rating.


5 out of 5 stars The FICO score doctor you need   March 20, 2010
Gabriel E. Borlean (Odense, Denmark - birthtown of fairytale-writer H.C. Andersen)
This is the best book on the marketing on understanding and demystifying the convoluted world of Consumer Credit scores. You will understand how better to use your FICO score and consumer credit. Very well organized.


3 out of 5 stars Doesn't Stay On Track   February 24, 2010
Mike (Central Valley, CA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

The author spends too much time on other subjects, rather than staying with credit scoring...which was disappointing to me. I believe I knew as much about the subject by scanning various articles and websites.


5 out of 5 stars An Extremely Useful Resource   December 17, 2009
Bucky (Haunted Mansion, The Magic Kingdom)
I have had this book for several months now, and have been able to use the information contained within to improve my credit score. Of particular use to me was the information about cleaning up old, useless information about accounts that you no longer use. It's important to get that info off your credit account. Also valuable was the debt to income ratio info, and the importance of timing in paying your bills every month. If you don't know much about your credit score and how to improve it, this can be a very useful, worthwhile book.


3 out of 5 stars For the most part a good book   December 11, 2009
Kurt A. Johnson (North-Central Illinois, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

This book is a really good examination of credit and credit scores, and what you need to do to maintain your creditworthiness. It has a lot of good advice that is easy to read, understand and follow. My problem with the book is that, like too many books on finances, it puts too much emphasis on credit score. Credit score is an important when making purchases that must be done on credit, but as many people have learned during this present (and lengthening!) economic crisis, making credit purchases too large of a part of your normal activity is a terribly bad thing.

As such, for the most part this is a good book, on its chosen subject. But, there is more to think about.

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