The Credit Cleanup Book: Improving Your Credit Score, Your Greatest Financial Asset

By unlocking the mortgage industry's trade secrets, this indispensable book will help readers understand credit scoring and learn how to obtain—and improve—their credit reports. • Includes the latest information on banking and lending requirements in the post-credit-crisis environment • Explains how new regulations and guidelines, such the Dodd-Frank Act, are impacting banks, credit, and lending • Shows readers what will improve a consumer's credit score and what will damage it • Spells out debt management strategies and debt solutions and shares tips on technologies that help with credit and money management • Exposes common credit reporting and lending myths and secrets