When buying a car there are good car dealers and bad car dealers.  There are those that finance using Manufacture Financing and those who use Finance Companies to do their financing.  For those who use Finance Companies this can hurt your credit scores considerably.  Using any Finance company will hurt your credit scores. Using Manufacturer Financing will improve your credit.

But let’s talk about the car dealerships that offer “Bad Credit Ok” or “We will help you restore your credit”. Usually this does not work because the car dealership will only report if you fail to pay on time.  Now, if you understand credit as well as I do, then you will realize that won’t help at all… ever, because they won’t report the good payment history, just the bad payment history if you forget, slip or fail to pay on time.

So, avoid these game players and stick to a car dealership that offers Manufactures Financing or get your own at a credit union or bank before you go shopping and improve your credit scores.

There are 3 types of inquiries to know about as you look over your credit report. It’s important to understand them and how they affect your credit scores because they can affect your credit scores very seriously. I have seen a couples credit scores drop over 120 points because of “shopping for credit” and not realizing their inquiries were costing them points.

The third type of inquiry is an investigation inquiry for companies who are looking to see if you qualify for their loan program or their credit card.  You don’t initiate it and if you do qualify, then you will probably get a letter in the mail for a special credit card offer, a special car loan or mortgage loan offer.  Basically junk mail offers.  If you are looking for credit, then these might be helpful but if you already have established credit then these might be a nuisance.

You can “Opt Out” of this program to send you junk mail.  To do so, you can call or go to their website…  The phone call will opt you out for 5 years – 1–888–567–8688.  To opt out permanently go to www.optoutprescreen.com.

They Will End Up Making More Money When They Are Able To Approve You!

When you don’t have any say in what happens with your credit report and the information contained in it, you are at the mercy of the credit bureaus and lenders, which is not a good place to be because they ultimately are only concerned with their profits and you are not able to get the items you need on credit.

They could care less how bad your credit rating repair is, or if there are errors, misleading, incomplete or unverifiable negatives on your report. The more of these items appear on reports, the more money they can make from higher interest rates when you do find someone that will approve you.

It is estimated that roughly 79% of credit reports contain errors. This is costing consumers millions of dollars per year from higher interest rates as a result of these errors, and that’s not including negative accounts that should NOT be on credit reports according to the law.

At the end of the day it puts more profits in the pockets of the credit bureaus biggest customers… the lenders!
Herschel

There are 3 types of inquiries to know about as you look over your credit report. It’s important to understand them and how they affect your credit scores because they can affect your credit scores very seriously. I have seen a couples credit scores drop over 120 points because of “shopping for credit” and not realizing their inquiries were costing them points.

The second type of inquiry is called a Soft Pull.  When you “shop for credit”, you are asking the sales people to pull your credit.  This is very dangerous as the more you have your credit pulled, the lower your score drops and it can be very significant.  The solution is to pull your own credit score and report from www.MyFICO.com and use that to shop with until you find the right loan for you then let them pull your credit scores. This way you can shop all day for as long as you like, months if you want and it won’t hurt your score one bit. When you pull your own credit scores it won’t cost you points either. That’s because it is called a soft pull. Soft pulls won’t cost you.

Anytime that you pull your own credit report or scores, the credit bureaus recognize that you are just looking over your own credit and it isn’t going to anyone that could use the report anyway so it is a soft pull and won’t cost points. Other companies can do a soft pull as well and see your credit and scores to be sure you still qualify for their special programs or offer you insurance rates, interest rates, etc. These inquiries can be in the hundreds and still not cost you any points.