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Beyond The Basics: 4 Tricky Rules of Credit to Master

By melissa | Published: October 20, 2010

**Welcome to What To Know Wednesdays here at Credit Karma Bootcamp: Your 31-Day Credit Health Plan.** The tenants of using and building good credit is second-nature to many consumers—pay on-time and don’t max out your credit card. But the more mysterious practices of credit card underwriting and credit reporting leaves some gray areas

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Three Biggest Credit Score Questions — Answered

By | Published: October 7, 2010

**Welcome to What To Know Wednesdays here at Credit Karma Bootcamp: Your 31-Day Credit Health Plan.** At Credit Karma’s Credit Advice Center , users ask each other their most burning financial questions and get answers straight from the community. With all these credit-curious conversations going on, there are certain questions that keep popping up about credit scores

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Will debt consolidation affect my credit score?

By | Published: September 28, 2010

During the present economic slowdown, many Americans are dragged into debt as they are habituated to spend money as much as they earn without savings. This attitude of Americans continues since ages and as a result is experiencing when there is slowdown in economy and rise in unemployment rate. It is very hard to change the habit of spending suddenly when someone has reduced income too and that leads to mounting in debt as they start borrow money to cover their expenses. For those who can not control their spending habits, it is necessary that they take help of debt solutions. There are many ways to find debt free and debt consolidation is one such alternative to become debt free

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Good Credit Basics: Establishing Good Credit

By melissa | Published: May 8, 2010

For young people just starting out, getting good credit often seems like a Catch-22 – you have to have good credit to get credit, and you need to get credit to establish good credit. While having a blank credit history does limit the types of credit you can reasonably expect to obtain initially, there are some simple ways to establish positive credit that almost anyone can employ