Demystifying Your Credit Report

Are you just taking an interest in your credit for the first time? Even if that's not the case, looking over your credit report can raise some questions for you when you aren't regularly interacting with your credit. Information on your credit report is organized into standard sections that help you identify the type of information you're seeing: identification information like your name, or account information like a mortgage loan. Your credit report may have more or less information on it depending on how much credit you're currently using, but all your active credit obligations should appear. When you know what information your credit report presents (and how it displays that information, too), you should be able to quickly scan it to confirm that things appear as they should. That means that should some kind of unexpected activity - potentially fraudulent or unauthorized - appear within your report, you'll be able to spot it quickly and easily. Your credit report doesn't have to remain a mystery, but you have to engage with it to break that status.

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Demystifying Your Credit Report is an episode from Credit 101.

This episode is 01:01 long.

This episode was published on Apr 20, 2016.

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