Posted on Wednesday, 11th January 2012 by Erin Jones
As if choosing a college and moving away from home for the first time wasn’t stressful enough, many college students are also faced with the choice of getting their first credit cards and beginning to build their credit histories. Many lenders offer credit cards designed with students in mind and relentlessly push new applications on [...]
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Posted on Monday, 11th July 2011 by Emily Smith
Credit is given to those that are worthy of it. It is a measure of how excellent you are as an individual as credit measures how accurate you are to your word, how excellent you are in repaying some thing which you have borrowed. Credit cards are meant to assist people do their simple household [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 3rd April 2011 by Vanessa Miller
Over the past couple of years, the credit card industry seems bent on shaking up the credit markets so that it comes out in their favor. For small business owners with business credit cards, there has been virtual tidal wave of often unexpected changes- from cut credit lines to closed accounts- that seems to blindly [...]
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Posted on Friday, 21st January 2011 by Emily Smith
Tenant defaults could soar over the the coming year amid reports that lots of have borrowed money on credit cards to pay for their mortgage or rent over the past yr, warns top tenant eviction and hire collection firm Landlord Help. The warning comes following a YouGov poll for housing charity Shelter which reveals a [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 17th August 2010 by Emily Smith
In Part One of this post, we laid out a strategy for how to eliminate credit card debt. In review, it basically consists of budgeting the maximum amount you can pay monthly and as your minimum payments go down you continue to pay the full amount, with anything over minimum payments being applied towards the [...]
Tags: Card Debt, Credit Card, Credit Card Debt, Debt
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Posted on Saturday, 17th July 2010 by Emily Smith
High credit card debt can be extremely detrimental to your credit rating, and if you are falling behind in your credit card payments also, it can be even worse. High balances and late payments can contribute to over 50% of your credit score, so if you are so badly in debt that you are considering [...]
Tags: Card Debt, Credit, Credit Card, Credit Card Debt
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