Share the love I have been approved for several credit cards based on my TransUnion credit score but the most recent approval as of last week was for the Barclays Uber Visa credit card. My FICO 8 credit score at the time of approval was 669. My starting credit limit was $4,000. It has since been …
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Share the love A payday loan must be paid every payday. It can be every 2 weeks or every 4 weeks if you only get paid once a month. I have extensive experience with both payment intervals but between the two, one payday loan a month beats two a month any day. Now for installment loans. …
Share the love For anyone that is used to getting payday loans on a regular basis over the years, you already know that due to regulation, payday loans are a thing of the past except for in very rare situations that are dictated by region. Just like I predicted the eventual end of the payday loan, …
Share the love 1 1ShareIf your credit is really bad, your options are going to be very limited. I would suggest reaching out to Capital One to see if you qualify for a secured credit card. They are the best company for giving second chances and in my case even a third chance even after burning them …
Share the love It wasn’t very long ago when the only credit cards I qualified for were the high-risk cards that charged a monthly fee, a yearly fee, or both. They were supposed to help me build my credit but at the time I wasn’t responsible enough to use them in that way. Instead, I used …
Share the love The absolute worse credit score you can have in the current credit scoring system is 300. My personal record low was 430 and that was mostly due to a very high credit utilization that at the time hovered above 95%. There was a time when my credit reports were riddled with collections and …
Share the love That would depend on just how low your score is currently because it is much easier to make a larger jump from a really low score to a higher score than if you were trying to increase a score that is relatively high already. Less than six months ago one of my credit …
Share the love I research credit virtually non stop so I am well equipped to answer this question. Without a doubt, the two best cash back cards that you can own and “should” qualify for with about a 650 FICO credit score would be the Discover IT Cash and the Citibank Double Cash rewards cards. I …
Share the love I am one of those people who obsesses over credit. The reason is that I have struggled with credit in the past and also because I have an obsessive type personality. Once I set my mind on something I cannot let it go until I have reached the goal. In this case, my …
Share the love There certainly are and I used to be one of them. Believe it or not, the primary reason why I started to care about my credit and repair it is that someone told me that I couldn’t. Yep. It just came down to a simple case of I’m going to do it just …
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