Your score : an insider's secrets to understanding, controlling, and protecting your credit score / Anthony Davenport with Matthew Rudy.

"The most comprehensive insider's look at what every consumer needs to know about their credit score--and most importantly, how to fix it. If you, like so many millions of Americans, are terrified by the daily headlines regarding Equifax and identity theft, and how all of this can directly affect yo...

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Main Author: Davenport, Anthony (Author)
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]
Subjects:
Consumer credit > United States.
Finance, Personal > United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Personal Finance > General.
Consumer credit.
Finance, Personal.
United States.
Physical Description:xvi, 202 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: A cautionary tale
  • What you don't know can hurt you
  • What's in your score?
  • Building the perfect credit profile
  • Gaming the system
  • The five biggest credit mistakes and how to avoid them
  • Preparing your credit score for a new home purchase
  • The care and feeding of credit cards
  • Protecting your credit score from identity theft
  • The "newbie" : establishing credit for the first time
  • Higher education : navigating the school loan landscape
  • Disaster relief : surviving divorce, foreclosure, and bankruptcy.