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Expert guidance on tradelines, credit repair, and score-building strategies from the Boost Credit 101 team.

2014 New Years Resolution: Improve Your Credit Score
There’s a lot of things we tell ourselves we will do in the new year, lose weight, eat better, exercise more, be kinder to ourselves and others, volunteer, etc.

2014 Strategies For Improving Your Credit Score
January 2014, also known as New Year’s resolution time. One of the biggest resolutions, along with losing weight, getting out from under debt, quitting smoking

6 Ways A Low Credit Score Can Adversely Affect Your Life
Having good credit is like being healthy, you don’t ever think about it until you lose it. And if you’ve lost it, then there are a lot of different ways it can

7 Things You Should Do Right Now To Improve Your Credit Score
Your credit score is like any relationship. And while it may not require you to be quite as sensitive as a significant other, it does take paying attention to,

At What Age Should I Start To Build My Credit Score?
It’s probably fairly common knowledge that if you wish to acquire the finer things in life, i.e. a nice car, or a decent mortgage, you need to have a good credi

Credit Card Fraud - 3 Important Ways To Protect Your Credit Score
It's a boon and a detriment to our modern society that things change in an instant. With a lot of financial matters, including the volatile markets of quick-cha

Credit Score & The Path To Home-ownership
It’s easy when you’re young to just not worry about credit. It’s some made up number created by ghostly corporations that have little to do with you. You should

Credit Scores, Do You Need Top Secret Classified Access?
Credit Scores are like the secret room in a government building that only the highest level security personnel can access. No one really knows how exactly they

How to Get Your First Credit Card to Boost Your Credit Score
In a lot of ways, a person’s first credit card is a lot like a first weapon. If you don’t know how to handle it, the blade, or in the case of the card, debt, ca

Is Boosting Your Credit Score Legal?
Remember when you were young and your dad would put you on his shoulders and run you around the yard? If that never happened to you, just imagine it for a momen