Whats my credit score is a familiar question these days, but what does it mean to you? Let’s take a closer look at what’s a credit score mean to you and my observation of whats been circulating among people as to their understanding of these scores.
For those unfamiliar with the term credit score, they often think that these are the results we get in our credit card for the number of purchases we have done every year. But nothing is further from the truth. Credit scores are actually the grade you get based on the reliability of a person to pay their debts and credits.
Credit scores are determined by many factors, many of your outstanding debts are how regular do you pay on them, how much you spend and how much you earn. It will also be determined by your past credits and how you were as a borrower. Whats more important my scores and yours are all being collected and recorded by credit bureaus and agencies like Equifax, TransUnion and Experian.
So if you think you're the only one who knows you owe a credit card company a lot of money, think again because they keep records and more importantly, all the operations of credit that they get are filed reference of each credit and financial institutions in the country.
Credit scores are important because it can mean the acceptance or rejection of a loan. Whats with a really bad credit score? You may not be able to obtain a home loan, car loans, student loans and even credit cards. In short, with a bad credit history, your days of borrowing money could be history for a while. As added salt to the wound, not only the credit card companies, lending companies and banks will obtain information from your credit rating.
Even private companies and government agencies use this background check a current employee or a prospective employee. You see, a credit score determines financial expertise of a person and sense of responsibility. Whats even more, it will also show how a person is ready to face a problem instead of running away.
In my experience, this is especially true with employees that are hired or were hired to assume posts that deal with highly sensitive financial issues or those who are in direct contact with money. A credit history and score is important to determine whether they will be able to manage finances well.
Cell-phone businesses and card companies also use credit scores to determine credit customers they should target. People who have good credit scores are often those who have the spending power. Thus, they are good people to offer packages of mobile phone and service card.
Whats more; in guaranteeing a loan, credit scores are also used to determine the type of loan that fits your credit profile. People who have high credit score are given financing in larger amounts, lower interest and more time to repay the loan.
In contrast, individuals who have poor credit score may be refused a loan or at least have a smaller size of the loan, higher interest rates and much shorter time frame to repay the loan. This is because the credit card companies and lenders also want to protect their interests. Credit ratings are lower and therefore more risky warrant higher interest rates.
If your still asking yourself, Whats my credit score, find out, report scores can be purchased over the Internet via Equifax. They can send you your FICO (Fair Isaac Corporation) score which costs approximately fifteen dollars.