Your Credit Score: How to Fix, Improve, and Protect the 3-Digit Number that Shapes Your Financial Future, 2nd Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Liz Pulliam Weston
Publisher: FT Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 43693
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0132254581
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.743
EAN: 9780132254588
ASIN: 0132254581
Publication Date: February 4, 2007
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Back Cover Copy: Your Credit Score Your Credit Score How to Fix, Improve, and Protect the 3-Digit Number that Shapes Your Financial Future A complete action plan for improving your credit score-starting today! Information that could save you thousands on credit and insurance...even help you get your next job! Explains the rules, explodes the myths! Up-to-the-minute information on today's radically new credit scoring system from MSN/L.A. Times personal finance journalist Liz Pulliam Weston. "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 best-selling author of Personal Finance for Dummies "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 best-selling 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
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 Good credit repair July 16, 2008
RobCarSales (Brunswick,GA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I send all my customers who don't qualify for a car loan. I have seen some amazing results from these guys in a short amount of time. They are affordable to the kind of customers who would need credit repair in the first place, they charge less than $500 and will get results. Just a heads up from a Sales Manager of a New Car dealership.
 A demystifying guide to a crucial personal finance issue March 18, 2008
Rolf Dobelli (Luzern Switzerland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
You literally can't afford to ignore your credit record. Every negative mark or mistake on your credit history can cost you big bucks: Over the course of a lifetime, a person with merely average credit will pay thousands more for a mortgage, car loan or credit cards than one with good credit. However, if you don't know the difference between FICO and FICA, can't understand why you have a 23.5% interest rate on your charge card, and were shocked when your car insurance payments went up even though you weren't in an accident, don't despair. Liz Pulliam Weston explains it all to you. Her book is brimming with accessible, vital information, and getAbstract believes that it will save you money, whether you're just beginning to learn about personal credit or you're an experienced, savvy consumer. And for that she deserves a lot of credit.
 Basic, but great for newbies February 8, 2008
Danielle Rocheford (Westminster, MA)
I think this book has good information for those who are just learning about their credit scores and why they're so important. It's easy to read and understand.
Like several other's, I already have a good score and was hoping to find some suggestions on how to improve/tweek my score even higher. I was dissappointed not to find anything on that topic.
All in all, it will be very helpful for beginners.
basic December 18, 2007
Kalam Fletcher
After reading other credit report books, this book seemed quite basic with a lot of common knowledge information.
Good basic overview October 25, 2007
Blue sky (Schaumburg, IL United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Gives a good basic overview of credit scores. However, I was hoping to find the answer to my particular problem in this book, and the author just brushed over it. I have a good credit score (760), but too many open credit cards. The author just says that there is nothing you can do about this because closing the accounts would have a negative affect on your credit score. But what if I close one account every 6 months or year? I was really hoping for more feedback than just stating that I'm stuck with the open accounts.
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