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Your Credit Score: How to Fix, Improve, and Protect the 3-Digit Number that Controls Your Financial Future (Liz Pulliam Weston)
Your Credit Score: How to Fix, Improve, and Protect the 3-Digit Number that Controls Your Financial Future (Liz Pulliam Weston)

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Author: Liz Pulliam Weston
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 reviews
Sales Rank: 391319

Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.8

ISBN: 0131486039
Dewey Decimal Number: 332
UPC: 076092036968
EAN: 9780131486034
ASIN: 0131486039

Publication Date: October 14, 2004
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Also Available In:

  • Paperback - Your Credit Score: How to Fix, Improve, and Protect the 3-Digit Number that Shapes Your Financial Future, 2nd Edition
  • Digital - Your Credit Score: How to Fix, Improve, and Protect the 3-Digit Number that Shapes Your Financial Future (2nd Edition) (Liz Pulliam Weston)
  • Kindle Edition - Your Credit Score: How to Fix, Improve, and Protect the 3-Digit Number That Shapes Your Financial Future
  • Kindle Edition - Your Credit Score: How to Fix, Improve, and Protect the 3-Digit Number that Controls Your Financial Future

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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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Customer Reviews:   Read 23 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Credit Scores   January 3, 2009
Most people have absolutely no idea of how credit
scores are derived or that they can be challenged.
"Rapid Re-scoring Services" will assist you in
revising your credit score to take into account
erroneous or out-of-date information which is adverse.
The author advises us to pay down debt quickly and
reduce credit limits to raise the credit score.

There is a "National Consumer Advocate(s)" which
helps with legal advice for chronic credit problems.
They can be reached at " 202-452-1989. Sometimes,
local newspapers have reporting debts knowledgeable
on credit in their geographic reporting area.

Overall, the work has very valuable advice which
could help most members of the public. Good strategies
are advanced to deal with creditors and their representatives.
A novice should not work on his/her own because there
is a plethora of knowledge in the community at large.
Use it or waste countless hours banging your ahead against
the wall.

Dr. Joseph S. Maresca



3 out of 5 stars Good credit repair   July 16, 2008
 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.



5 out of 5 stars A demystifying guide to a crucial personal finance issue   March 18, 2008
 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.


4 out of 5 stars Basic, but great for newbies   February 8, 2008
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.



3 out of 5 stars basic   December 18, 2007
After reading other credit report books, this book seemed quite basic with a lot of common knowledge information.