"Credit score" is a term that puts many adults who dream of owning a home on edge-especially when they don't know their actual number and what it means. First-time buyers believe they have no control over their score and must pay to have it repaired. With over twenty-five years of experience in the housing industry as a real estate agent, housing counselor, and mortgage loan officer, M. Joyce Brown explains why that's untrue and how you can personally retake control of your credit score. In seven simple steps, Brown will help you understand the complicated process of achieving better credit. How to obtain your credit report, improve your credit score, and dispute inaccurate credit account information are completely broken down in this easy-to-read guide. Tips on budgeting and knowing how to spot inaccuracies within your report are also explained. Want to learn what else mortgage lenders review for loan approval? Brown reveals four very specific factors about your finances that can give you an advantage. There is no quick fix for credit repair, but the solution is within your grasp! Arming you with insider information and newfound confidence, this detailed guide provides the tools for success and a clear path toward homeownership.
The Ultimate How To Guide to Credit Repair. Follow Donna and David as they go step by step through the process of improving their credit score, which ultimately allows them to purchase a home. You will learn how to create a budget, clean up your credit report (with sample letters and contact information) and what you need to apply and be approved for a home loan. Lots of information everyone should have.
Now, you can finally end the cycle of bad credit and get back on your feet by following the step-by-step advice and tools in Credit Repair Kit For Dummies, 2nd Edition. You’ll find out everything you need to know about creating a solid plan to get your credit back on track. You’ll discover how to find your credit report, review all of the information in it, and learn how you can repair and spruce it up. You’ll learn how to communicate with creditors and how to budget so that you can pay your bills in full and on time. You’ll learn how to apply these credit strategies to all life situations, from building credit with your life partner to financially surviving a divorce, unemployment, and student loans. You will find out how to safe-guard your identity so that other people don’t damage your credit. Find out how to: Take charge of your credit Get help from credit counselors Request copies of your credit report Know how to interpret your credit report and credit score Avoid foreclosure Communicate with collectors, lawyers, and the courts Manage medical debt Safe-guard your identity Complete with lists of ten tips to avoid identity theft and reduce damages, ten ways you can prevent foreclosure, ten methods for establishing and improving credit, and ten strategies for handling financial emergencies, Credit Repair Kit For Dummies, 2nd Edition is your one-stop guide to improving and maintaining your credit score and protecting your identity. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Written by an experienced credit consultant to the mortgage industry, "The Fix-Your-Credit Workbook" offers ways to organize cash flow, repair bad credit, and restore access to loans. Charts, to-do lists & form letters.
Build your credit profile in the best way so that you avoid mistakes and gain respect. Easy to read, down to earth. By the time you finish, you will know more about how the credit system works than 98 percent of the U.S. population. You will be in control of your own credit score. With top tier credit, you save tens of thousands of dollars on everything from auto insurance premiums to mortgage interest rates.Guidance from one of America's top and most beloved credit and mortgage experts, the author of Repair Your Credit Like the Pros. Carolyn Warren has been called a blessing, a godsend, and the Mother Theresa of mortgage loans. Bob Brinker of "Money Talk" radio rated her work "a 12 out of 10." Perfect for young adults opening their first credit cards, immigrants to the U.S., or anyone who wants to become an expert in how the credit scoring system works and take total charge of their own finances.
Written by a practicing emergency physician, The White Coat Investor is a high-yield manual that specifically deals with the financial issues facing medical students, residents, physicians, dentists, and similar high-income professionals. Doctors are highly-educated and extensively trained at making difficult diagnoses and performing life saving procedures. However, they receive little to no training in business, personal finance, investing, insurance, taxes, estate planning, and asset protection. This book fills in the gaps and will teach you to use your high income to escape from your student loans, provide for your family, build wealth, and stop getting ripped off by unscrupulous financial professionals. Straight talk and clear explanations allow the book to be easily digested by a novice to the subject matter yet the book also contains advanced concepts specific to physicians you won't find in other financial books. This book will teach you how to: Graduate from medical school with as little debt as possible Escape from student loans within two to five years of residency graduation Purchase the right types and amounts of insurance Decide when to buy a house and how much to spend on it Learn to invest in a sensible, low-cost and effective manner with or without the assistance of an advisor Avoid investments which are designed to be sold, not bought Select advisors who give great service and advice at a fair price Become a millionaire within five to ten years of residency graduation Use a "Backdoor Roth IRA" and "Stealth IRA" to boost your retirement funds and decrease your taxes Protect your hard-won assets from professional and personal lawsuits Avoid estate taxes, avoid probate, and ensure your children and your money go where you want when you die Minimize your tax burden, keeping more of your hard-earned money Decide between an employee job and an independent contractor job Choose between sole proprietorship, Limited Liability Company, S Corporation, and C Corporation Take a look at the first pages of the book by clicking on the Look Inside feature Praise For The White Coat Investor "Much of my financial planning practice is helping doctors to correct mistakes that reading this book would have avoided in the first place." - Allan S. Roth, MBA, CPA, CFP(R), Author of How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street "Jim Dahle has done a lot of thinking about the peculiar financial problems facing physicians, and you, lucky reader, are about to reap the bounty of both his experience and his research." - William J. Bernstein, MD, Author of The Investor's Manifesto and seven other investing books "This book should be in every career counselor's office and delivered with every medical degree." - Rick Van Ness, Author of Common Sense Investing "The White Coat Investor provides an expert consult for your finances. I now feel confident I can be a millionaire at 40 without feeling like a jerk." - Joe Jones, DO "Jim Dahle has done for physician financial illiteracy what penicillin did for neurosyphilis." - Dennis Bethel, MD "An excellent practical personal finance guide for physicians in training and in practice from a non biased source we can actually trust." - Greg E Wilde, M.D Scroll up, click the buy button, and get started today!
The time has never been more auspicious for black people to control their finances and achieve financial freedom. Having economic leverage is a key priority in our fight for equality and justice.In Dream of LEgacy, the author shares financial knowledge to help build generational wealth in the black community and close the racial wealth gap.This book will teach you the fundamentals of money management and help you transmit the knowledge to your children and grandchildren.You will acquire tools that will sympathetically teach your kids about the greatness in their DNA, and help them gain the mental fortitude necessary to reach their full potential.Dream of Legacy will help you take charge of your financial destiny and change your family's long-term wealth trajectory.
