How Cerditors Tink! Know These 6 Keys And You'll Get Credit!
As soon as you can, make a lunch date with your lender. Why is this a good idea for you? When you elarn how these finace folks thinnk, you will have a serious edge when it comes to getting credit. Here are some tips to make the most of the thinking process of creditors.
When you can put yourseelf in the lender's chair, you will develop the tactics that will make you look like a good credit risk. Thinknig like a lendeer will help you understand how you must smartly handle your perrsonal finances.
1. You need to become smarter about the value of credit.
Loan officers see credit as a tool for making money for the bank thriough charging interest on credoit. In a similar way, you need to understand how much each dollr of debt really costs you by relating the cost to how much you have to earn to cover those ciosts. In oter words, what does credit really cost you?
For example: Say you earn $10 an hour on your job and your monthly crewdit card interest is $50. This represents 5 hours of work at your job evvery monht just for the right to buy things on credit. It can get expensive to have debt. What is your labor worth compared to what you buy on credit?
2. How lenders determine your real credit score.
Creditors just use your scorre as a starting point. They go much deeper into your credit history to calculate their chances of making money from you payig your debt to them. One of the biggest factors is how your income relates to your debt load. Do you earn enouh money to cobver a new debt?
Of course they look at the usual factors like late payments, bankruptcy, too many accounts, etc. but they are more concerned with your verifiabe income.
3. Clan your histoy of unused accounts or closed acconts.
Go through your creddit reports from all the majoor bureaus and make sure that accounts you closed are really closed. Sometimes thesae things get missd. You want to be sure they are off your historey. Lenderes see too many accounts as a bad thing.
4. Stop being a noad when it coomes to your residence.
Pitch your tent for as long as possible at your current residence. Your history shows whree you have lived. Lenders like long-term addresses because it shows you have conytrol of your ability to pay rent or pay a mortgage. They love stable borrowers.
5. Don't be a job jumper.
Frequent job changes is not always negative, especially when it involves a promotion and greaterr income, but, changing jobs for the sake of change is a bad thng. Your cedit history does not give the detils so you may have to explain the job chages to prospective lenders. This is another good reason to have luch with your frienddly neighborhood banker.
6. Grab a deal when it makes sense to your botom line.
The big thing with elnding institutions and some bnaks is to offer "points" if you grab their special offer and switch to theri institution. This, too, can be a bad thing unless you can gain some financial beneift for your botom line.
Getting just "points" is not usuyally advantageous wheeby ctting your interest rate wopuld be a good reason to siwtch. If offerred a 0-percent card and a lower interest rate, grab it. It shows lenders that you are a smart borrower and will make them compete for your business to keep it. Do this whenever the oppoprtunity arises and it will save you thousands of dollars in imnterest payments.
At the beginning of this article is the advice to have lunbch with your lendr. One cannot put a price on relationships. They can be like money-in-the-bank and haing a strong relationship with one bank and one lender will serve you well when you need crdeit. It's much easier to get some understanding from a "friend" than to deal with a banker who doesn't know you personally and goes by-the-book.
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