Credit Scores Reviews
Understanding the Best Way to Improve Credit Score...

Any time you apply for credit, whether it is a mortgage, car loan, credit  card or student loan, you are subject to a credit score review, the lender wants to know what their risk will be.

Lenders use Fico Credit Scores to determine if you are a credit risk or not.
Each credit bureau Experian, Equifax, & TransUnion generate a Fico score on you. As you credit information changes, the bureau's store the changes accordingly. Fico credit scores will determine risk, loan amounts, and interest rates.
Credit repair programs, and credit repair attorneys go a long way to clean bad credit. Improving your score or removing damaging items improves your Fico credit score.

Criteria used to calculate a Fico score include at least 1 account opened for at least 6 months, 1 account which has been updated at least once in 6 months. This enables the credit bureau's to gather enough data on you to generate a score.

Fico scores got their name from a risk assessment model by a company called Fair Isaac Corp. " Hence FICO was born."

Fico credit scores provide a guideline for lenders to determine risk on loans they write. This is based mainly on data contained in your report. The higher the score the lower the risk, and vice versa.

Each lender has established their own threshold of risk they are willing to take on, each lender has a strategy, and scoring model to determine future risk.

All 3 major credit bureau's use differing terminology for their Fico credit scores, although they were all based on the model created by, Fair Isaac Corp. Below are the different models used:

Experian                Experian/Fair Isaac Risk Model 
Equifax                  Beacon Model
TransUnion           Empirica Model

When you talk about a credit score people just assume you mean your Fico credit score, however there is not any 1 score used solely to make a lending decision about you.

Credit scores are not the only criteria used to determine risk, 
salary or income
employment(length of time at current job)
residence (rent or own),etc...

Fico isn't the only score used by all credit agencies refer to the above models. Different Lenders use different models ( there are a great number of models), to compile more data, and its used to keep the consumer uninformed and confused. So if you need to know "How do I fix my credit"... Check my personal recommendation below...

Scores from each bureau can vary greatly, this is because each bureau keeps different data on you, and assigns different weights on different criteria  in the weighting process.

Your Fico score will change over time, due to longer account history, solid on time payments, will keep your score level to increasing. Unfortunately late payments, inaccurate or incorrect data collected will cause your score to decrease.
  
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