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Refinance Mortgage: Your Credit Score Affects Your Mortgage and How to Build Your FICO Score
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By Louie Latour

Your credit score is used by mortgage lenders to evaluate the level of risk you pose for a mortgage loan. The lower your credit score is the more you will pay for the financing in the form of higher interest rates, fees, and the points you may be required to pay. There are steps you can take to improve your credit (FICO) score; here are several tips to help get you started.

Your credit score is calculated by evaluating the contents of your credit history. It is a numerical representation of your credit worthiness. The most common credit score you will hear about is the FICO credit score, which gets its name from the company that creates it, the Fair Isaac Corporation. There are a number of factors that make up your FICO score. Fair Isaac evaluates your history of on-time payments, the length of your credit history, the amount of credit you have, along with any negative aspects of your credit history including bankruptcies, collections, and write-offs.

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How Can You Improve Your Credit Score?

There is no quick fix for credit repair. It takes time to build up a positive history and a dose of self control. The best thing you can do to boost your credit score is to use credit responsibly, pay your bills on time, and maintain low balances on your credit cards. If you have negative information in your credit records you can negotiate with the creditor that placed it there and pay off any bad debt to have that negative removed.

Once you have cleaned up your credit you can begin shopping for a new mortgage loan. Ideally you will want at least two years of solid credit in your records before applying for a mortgage; however, for some homeowners this is not always possible. If you need to refinance your mortgage sooner than this you may have to seek assistance from a bad credit, or

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