02/23/2022
Solidus Financials Inc.
Financial Consulting and Professional Training
Published by Larry Little February 22, 2022
Basic Credit Series WHAT IS CREDIT?
“Credit is: Confidence in a purchaser’s ability and intention to pay, and entrusting the buyer with goods or services without immediate payment.”
Essentially you get a loan. When you apply for and get credit, you are entered into a data base, which records, and reports your payment habits, or behaviors if you will.
Businesses use this information to determine your level of risk to receive future loans. What’s reported is your payments of bills, late, or missed payments, any loans, or loan payoffs, and the amount of your total debt, anything pertaining to your financial obligations of payments.
Along with your payment information, your personal information is collected, which includes: Work, your address(es), how bills are paid, public records, if you’ve been sued, bankruptcies.
The agencies that collect this data are called Credit Bureaus. The bureaus sell this information to: Creditors, employers, insurers and even you as a credit report or credit scores.
In recent years controversies have arisen as to the accuracy and or fairness of the reporting habits or methods of both creditors and the credit bureaus.
Therefore, it is your responsibility to maintain a vigilant eye on your credit score as frequently as possible. You should understand some of the basic elements of credit reporting, and how these reports affect your life, because they do affect you in a very important way. You want to know how to avoid the pitfalls and stay out of debt trouble.
WHY IS CREDIT IMPORTANT?
Your reputation is closely associated to your credit; it is the first thing banks or any other creditor will ask about you. The credit building process can be long and arduous especially if it’s been damaged by neglect or errors.
Receiving a personal or business loan will be directly related to your credit scores. Homeowner’s or auto insurance will base your rate of payment or amount of interest on your credit scores. If a job application is financially related; you can believe that the employer will look at your credit score.
In essence the difference in a low (300) or a high (850) credit score is the difference in having low-to-no buying power or having sufficient-to-exceptional buying power through your credit.
Remember, your financial decisions today will be the judgment of your financial future.
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