Credit Score – The Good, the Bad, and the Sucky

Posted by Home Morgage | Personal Finance | Saturday 22 August 2009 10:18 am

Like it or not, your credit score matters whether or not you plan to borrow money. As such it’s a good idea to learn as much as you can about credit score, how it works, and how it impact your finances. Below are some great articles about credit score I found around the web this week. These articles cover a wide variety of aspects and I recommend that you read them all.

15 Reasons Why You Should Ignore Your FICO Score at Money Ning
Five Things That Don’t Affect Your Credit Score at Bible Money Matters
11 steps to improve your credit score at MSN Smart Spending
Credit score changes at Gather Little By Little
What’s a “Hard Pull” on a Credit Check? at Green Panda Treehouse
Freecreditreport.com vesus myFICO.com: Do you know the difference? at The Dough Roller
FreeScore.com: More Credit Score Confusion at WSJ The Wallet
Your Credit Sucks – A simple, five step plan to improve your credit score in 30 days at Rate Nerd

Additionally, I put together a list of Free Credit Report and Credit Score Online Sites that you can use to get your credit score and report for free.

Weekly Highlights

Here are a few highlights I’d like to share this week.

Moolanomy was featured on the Buck List with some high praises — i.e., the golden standard of personal finance blogs — thank you Buck!
A guest article 9 Really Weird Ways to Make Money by Linda McCormick was featured on The Daily Crux — awesome work Linda!
Suze Orman Reveals Her Top Six Money Tips at Restoring Your Finances and Your Faith
4 Reasons Why Student College Loans Are Dangerous at The Debt Hawk
6 Innovative Banks That Change Online Banking at Mint Life
Discovering (and Challenging) Your Financial Values at Get Rich Slowly

Giveaways

Bob Lotich is giving away $100 Amazon Gift Card to celebrate 1,000,000 visitors milestone on Christian Personal Finance — congratulation Bob…great job.
Green Panda Treehouse and a bunch of other blogs are giving away some HP computers to celebrate back to school season.
Spend On Life is hosting a Bad Poetry Contest for a chance to win $1,000.