Credit Reports and Credit Scores

Your credit history is important to a lot of people: mortgage lenders, banks, utility companies, prospective employers, and more.  It's especially important that you understand you credit report, credit score, and credit bureaus, the companies that compile that information.

The following site of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau provides guidlines to answer to some of the most common and most important questions about credit.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/how-do-i-get-and-keep-a-good-credit-score-en-318/