{"id":1785,"date":"2016-06-07T22:55:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T22:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2016-06-07T22:55:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T22:55:39","slug":"simple-ways-to-improve-your-credit-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/07\/simple-ways-to-improve-your-credit-score\/","title":{"rendered":"SIMPLE WAYS to IMPROVE your CREDIT SCORE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(1) CHECK YOUR CREDIT REPORTS\u00a0 &#8211; 1 from Equifax, 1 from TransUnion and 1 from Experian.\u00a0 You can get a free copy once a year.\u00a0 Review them for possible errors.\u00a0 80% of consumers find errors &amp; need to be corrected.\u00a0 (2)\u00a0 PAY YOUR BILLS ON TIME.\u00a0 Even a few days late can hurt your score.\u00a0 Set up a calendar to keep up to prevent late payments.\u00a0 (3)\u00a0 REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF DEBT YOU OWE.\u00a0 Lowering it will lower the amount of interest you pay.\u00a0 Paying off delinquent accounts can improve your credit score.\u00a0 (4)\u00a0 BE PATIENT &#8211; like losing weight &#8211; it takes time.\u00a0 No quick fix, but time will help with YOUR IMPROVEMENTS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(1) CHECK YOUR CREDIT REPORTS\u00a0 &#8211; 1 from Equifax, 1 from TransUnion and 1 from Experian.\u00a0 You can get a free copy once a year.\u00a0 Review them for possible errors.\u00a0 80% of consumers find errors &amp; need to be corrected.\u00a0 (2)\u00a0 PAY YOUR BILLS ON TIME.\u00a0 Even a few days late can hurt your score.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}