Tag: Credit score
Property Insurance Coverage for Hard-to-Insure People
Rising insurance costs have hit everyone, but if you’re a high-risk customer, you could feel the biggest bite. Getting dropped, cancelled, or denied a policy is no laughing matter. Fortunately, you needn’t cry either. You might have trouble getting insured, admits Bob Hunter, director of insurance for Consumer Federation of America (CFA). But it’s not impossible. In […]
How to Give Your Credit Score a Boost
When it comes to credit, you should know the score. Your credit score, that is. A credit score is a three-digit number from 300 to 850 that serves as a snapshot of your credit report at any given time. Ryan Sjoblad, spokesman for Fair Isaac Corporation — the company that created the credit, or FICO, score — […]
How to Get the Lowest Mortgage Interest Rates
Over the last few years we have been experiencing an environment of extremely low interest rates. This level of interest rates has not been seen for at least 2 generations. How long they will remain at this level is hard to predict so if you are thinking of applying for a new mortgage or a refinance, now […]
3 Alternatives to Avoid Foreclosure
Repayment of your mortgage or any other type of loan that you might have taken is one of the biggest financial headaches that you suffer from. The fact that defaulting on repayment of a loan is frowned upon by your lender and continued delinquency will prompt your lender to foreclose on the property adds more […]