| Dirty Little Secrets: What the Credit Bureaus Won't Tell You | 
 enlarge | Author: Jason R. Rich
Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 358099
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1599180146
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.7
EAN: 9781599180144
ASIN: 1599180146
Publication Date: July 28, 2006
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Product Description
Insider secrets that can improve your credit score These days, maintaining a good credit report and FICO score is critical. This insider guide reveals how the FICO score is calculated—and lets you in on how to manipulate it. Dirty Little Secrets from the Credit Bureaus offers you little-known strategies for improving credit scores and making a credit report look attractive to lenders. Credit experts from well-known companies show you the best way to communicate effectively with the three major credit bureaus to make corrections and update information. Plus, it reveals how you can get bad information legally removed from credit reports.
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 The Secret is "There are NO Dirty Little Secret in this Book November 15, 2008
I agree with McCallum, bought the book because I was dealing with some items I needed pertinent information on, and thought Dirty Little Secrets would cut to the chase....WRONG. It's happens to be a bunch of common sense information that one who has credit already knows. In addition, its very repetitive.
No big secrets June 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was very disappointed in this book. The "BIG" secret is; pay your bill's on time! This book actually gives bad advice if you are trying to better your credit score. There are many other books out there with much more and helpful information. Don't waste your money. Most of the book is about common sense or information you can find on the credit bureaus websites. Unless you want to know about how to handle debt collector's this book is useless. Not ONE dirty secret!!! I even checked the year the book was writen in, I thought maybe is was from a decade ago....
It is what it is August 6, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I think this book accomplishes its narrow purpose - to be an extremely basic overview mini-book for the credit novice. There is no in-depth examination of any topic, the title is definitely misleading (all the while I read I kept waiting in anticipation of the 'dirty little secrets' that were never to materialize) and will not be informative for anyone who has a basic knowledge of managing credit. Even if you are a credit novice, this is not a reference resource that you need to own, save yourself the purchase price and get it from the library instead.
No new or "secret" information August 1, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The things that this book told me were things that are common sense & common knowledge about credit scores and credit reports. There was nothing in it that would help me repair my credit besides the traditional step: try to pay off as much as you can, which is a probblem when you dont have the money. It wasnt what I expected.
 Credit 101 at it's best July 10, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I purchased the book, and, no, there are no "dirty little secrets" in the book. The title is more to grab your attention than anything. This book is credit 101. It takes a topic that is (lets all agree) very BORING, and puts it into a form that is easily understood by anyone with a 9th grade reading level. I work in the credit business and I look at people's credit every day. Most of them are a nightmare precisely because they don't understand how credit works, or what helps, or what hurts. Credit is not getting better. It's getting worse, and this book should be a mandatory read. Not because it's full of incredibly detailed information, but because America as a whole is credit-ignorant and could use a 101 crash course. Yes, you could get the same information from surfing multiple websites, but if you want all that information in a very simple, short, and easy to understand book, this is it. Parents aren't teaching good credit information to their kids, so who's going to give them credit 101 info? This book is so basic that it should be a mandatory read for kids as soon as they land their first job. Yes, the title is a bit misleading. No, there are no earth shattering tidbits in it. Considering most people in America have NO CLUE about the ins-and-outs of how credit works, or how even a simple late pay can damage their credit, or how to go about resurrecting their credit, I would strongly suggest this book.
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