Sunday, 10 January 2010

Ways On Making a Good Credit Rating

Every people have his own dreams to reach standards and comfort of life. Such example is buying a house or leasing an apartment to build a home or basically first applying for a job to earn more money just to buy these basic commodities. With all these day to day survival, there are companies who offer credit for purchase. They first evaluate their customers’ major purchase, insurance application or leasing an apartment on credit history. The credit history has the information on the requests for credit or charge accounts, personal loans, insurance, as well as the history of payment on the bills, the income and the amount of debts. It will show whether one has been sued, arrested of filed for bankruptcy. In order to get a good evaluation of the credit history one has to have good credit ratings.

How to get good credit ratings?

Apply only for new credit when really needed. Banks and financial providers take pleasure in lending new credit; it is a sign of under constant financial stress and relying on borrowing moneyto get by. This ‘loose’ financial nature is not assuring to the banks, and as a result one should limit frequent application for new credit.

Keep old/current merchant accounts open for as long as possible. A customer who has made repayments on time and been financially responsible for 4 years on his account will make a much larger impact that someone of the same financial competence for 6 months.

Reduce debt: credit ratio. Regardless of how much you earn, a $2000 balance on a $5000 limit card is much worse than a $2000 balance on a $10,000 limit card. The $5,000 limit card would have a debt:credit ratio of 60%, as opposes to 20% on the latter card.

Make repayments and fee payments on time. The simplest way to improve or slowly revamp credit rating is to continue or begin making all repayments on time. This will prove to the banks certain client is responsible, who they won’t have to bother for repayments yet still earn interest from.

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