{"id":197,"date":"2007-04-25T18:08:38","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T18:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=197"},"modified":"2007-04-25T18:08:38","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T18:08:38","slug":"savemoneygetyourfreefinancialreportcardandgpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/savemoneygetyourfreefinancialreportcardandgpa\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Money \u2013 Get Your Free Financial Report Card and GPA"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nOne of your most important things in your financial life is your “FICO score”:http:\/\/www.myfico.com\/Downloads\/Files\/myFICO_UYFS_Booklet.pdf.<\/a> It is essentially fiscal GPA that measures how worthy of credit you are based upon several factors. It is imperative to know what yours is. Unfortunately, each time your FICO score is “officially requested”:http:\/\/www.myfico.com\/Products\/Products.aspx<\/a> it “decreases”:http:\/\/www.fico.org\/HowScoreCountsInquiries.aspx.<\/a> Thanks to a great “FICO score estimator”:http:\/\/bankrate.com\/brm\/fico\/calc.asp?lpid=BKRATE29<\/a> at “bankrate.com”:www.bankrate.com<\/a>, you can get an accurate estimated range of where you\u2019re at so you can “learn to improve it”:http:\/\/www.realtor.org\/realtororg.nsf\/pages\/myFICO2?OpenDocument<\/a> and compare yourself to the “median”:http:\/\/www.creditscoring.com\/.<\/a> Another thing you should get annually is your “free credit report”:www.annualcreditreport.com<\/a> from one of “three agencies”:http:\/\/www.legit411.com\/credit-card-bureaus.html.<\/a> By monitoring both your GPA and report card, you\u2019re more secure from “identity theft”:http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/156\/UseProtectionAgainstIDThieves<\/a> and exponentially more attractive to loaners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of your most important things in your financial life is your “FICO score”:http:\/\/www.myfico.com\/Downloads\/Files\/myFICO_UYFS_Booklet.pdf.<\/a> It is essentially fiscal GPA that measures how worthy of credit you are based upon several factors. It is imperative to know what yours is. Unfortunately, each time your FICO score is “officially requested”:http:\/\/www.myfico.com\/Products\/Products.aspx<\/a> it “decreases”:http:\/\/www.fico.org\/HowScoreCountsInquiries.aspx.<\/a> Thanks to a great “FICO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[193,240],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","category-uncategorized","tag-internet","tag-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}