| Increasing your score very quickly has numerous | | | | Another great way to instantly raise your score is to |
| advantages, the biggest is that you will be able to save | | | | open a new credit card and increase the amount of |
| money when applying for a loan by benefiting from the | | | | available credit that you currently have, but keep in |
| lowest interest rate possible. In this article I am going to | | | | mind that this strategy will only work if you do not |
| go over a few techniques you can use to raise your | | | | have enough accounts on your credit report. If you |
| score fast. The first task is to take a good hard look | | | | have two or open accounts with a payment history |
| at your credit report, it is estimated that at least 70% | | | | this should work for you. On the other hand if you |
| of credit reports contain errors. You want to make | | | | already have a good number of credit accounts don't |
| sure that yours is not included in this group especially if | | | | bother with this. |
| the item is a recent negative entry. | | | | And lastly, if you fall into the group of people with a |
| If you do locate one of these items you want to | | | | good number of credit accounts and need to raise |
| immediately "challenge" it with the credit bureaus..this | | | | your score, you would need to either reduce the |
| will be one of the fastest ways to increase your | | | | amount of credit you are using on those accounts or |
| current scores. Even if you have negative items that | | | | close a few of these accounts all together. Part of the |
| are on your report that you own, it is a good idea to | | | | formula for calculating credit scores looks at the |
| move forward and challenge them as well. People | | | | amount of credit you are using and if this amount is |
| have been known to have success deleting negatives | | | | too high, your score will be penalized. Reducing the |
| and raising their scores due to companies not being | | | | balance or closing a couple of them will work to add |
| able to properly verify items that are challenged. | | | | more points to your scores. |