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What Affects Your Credit Score?

March 14th, 2010

We all know that having a good credit score is very important to get any type of secured mortgage loans. The lender checks the borrowers credit report to check the borrowers credit affordability. If you have better score then you can get approve the loan with better rates and terms. So all of us try to improve our credit score or keep it in a better condition but do we all know what are things that affect our credit score badly? If we can avoid those things then we can have fairly credit.


  • Defaulting in Payments: The first and fore most thing is defaulting on monthly mortgage payment. If you default on your mortgage payments or any other payments, that shows a negative impact on the credit report. So it is better to pay all the bills on time and if you can make payment of your bills that has certainly have good impact on the credit score and helps to improve.
  • Regular Late Payments: We have already discussed that late payment a huge negative effects on the credit report and if someone makes constant late payments then his credit score is bound to go down.
  • Charge Off: Some times borrowers are unable to make some payment and the lender charge off the due amount but this actually have huge negative impact on the credit report. If the person does not make payment on the charge off amount then sometimes other lenders do not want to give a new loan as they may think that the person will not be able to pay off.
  • Closing down Old Accounts: Do not close your old credit card accounts and if you close your credit card account with some due balance then it will have massive negative impact.
  • Judgment against you: If you credit report shows any judgment against you that means you have not pay off your bills and the lender has taken help of the Court against you. This also effect your credit score badly.

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