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Credit Myths You Don’t Want To Fall Victim to part 2
#5 Adding 100 Word Statements to Your Credit Report Will Help
A 100 word statement is side of the story when it comes to an item on your credit report. While it will provide your side of the story when it comes to that late payment of your phone bill, it will not be included in the credit score calculation. There is no way for it to be considered. So if you are thinking about adding a 100 word statement just keep that in mind.
#6 Use Another Person’s Accounts to Improve Your Credit Score
The practice is to do what as known as piggybacking. This is when you find a person willing to add a consumer to their account so they get the benefit of their great payment history. There are many firms out there that are even selling this solution to improve your score, but new changes to the credit score formula could put an end to this practice. The new FICO score formula fives no boost in scores for this practice and it is seen as deceptive.
7# Your Credit Score is Free
This one is one of the largest myths you will here. There are site dedicated to offering a so called “free credit score”. It should be known by law consumers are entitled to one free credit report once per year from each credit bureau. This law does not state a free credit report. The ads you hear for a free credit score comes with strings. It usually includes, the consumer signing up for a credit monitoring program. It is free for the first month and then a monthly charge there after. These are not a bad thing and there are many benefits to a credit monitoring program but that really wasn’t what the consumer was shopping for. The free credit score is the lure. So if you sign up for one of these deals you must cancel within the stated grace period of you will be charged. There is no better example of this than the post on Free Credit Report.com Versus Annual Credit Report.com
#8 Close Old Unused Accounts
This credit score myth is based on the fact by having a lot of available credit you represent a higher risk to lenders and will have a lower credit score or something like that. What might happen if you do close these account you will kill your account history. Mainly this could be two different things: maybe closing the oldest account you have and dropping your average account age. These are two detrimental actions to your credit score and need to be avoided. It should be said that closing an account is not always a negative thing for instance if you are a consumer who is having trouble controlling spending. Not having this available line of credit might save you from yourself, but this might also be achieved by just shredding the credit score. It is your choice.
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