QuickTips Index

How Closing Credit Cards Affect Your Credit Score
Thinking about closing a credit card? Before you pick up the phone to call your credit card company, take some time to learn what will happen to your credit score if you close the card.

What's Not in Your Credit Score
There are specific things that influence your credit score - and specific things that don't. Learn the things that won't affect your credit score

How to Estimate Your FICO Score
Currently, there's nowhere to get a free FICO score, unless you sign up for some subscription service. Fortunately, there are ways you can estimate your FICO score for free if you know the information in your credit report.

How to Order Your Credit Score
Your credit score is a number that "grades" the information in your credit report. Banks use it to approve your application. You can order your credit score to find out how well your credit is doing.

Avoid Paying For Your Free Credit Report
Late-night commercials sing about free credit reports, but those reports aren't actually free. There are many free credit report scams and only one way to get your free annual credit report without using a credit card.

How to Order Your Credit Report
Your credit report has information about your past credit history. Creditors and lenders use your report to give credit and loans to you. Employers use it to hire you. Find out how to order your credit report.

FICO, FAKO, Credit - What Are All These Credit Scores?
There are a lot of different credit scores out there. Are they different from FICO scores? Which scores matter most?

Why You Have Different Credit Scores
Find out why you may have a different credit score at each credit bureau.