Your Credit Score: How To Fix, Improve, And Protect the 3-Digit Number that Shapes Your Financial Future

Your Credit Score: How To Fix, Improve, And Protect the 3-Digit Number that Shapes Your Financial Future

"Excellent book! Insightful, well written, and surprisingly interesting! Liz Pulliam Weston has done an outstanding job demystifying an often intimidating and frustrating topic for the benefit of all consumers." –Eric Tyson, syndicated columnist and best-selling author of Personal Finance for Dummies "In a country where consumers increasingly pay more when they have bad credit, Liz Pulliam Weston's book provides excellent tips and advice on ways to improve your credit history and raise your credit score. If you just apply one or two of her insightful suggestions, you'll save many times the cost of this book." –Ilyce R. Glink, financial reporter, talk show host, and best-selling author of 100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask "Your credit score can save you money or cost you money–sometimes a lot of money. Yet, most people don't even know their scores, much less know how to make them better. Liz Pulliam Weston can help you fix that. In this easy-to-understand guide you'll learn how to make sure your score helps you get the best deal on loans and insurance. You can't afford not to read it." –Gerri Detweiler, consumer advocate and founder of UltimateCredit.com A complete action plan for improving your credit score–starting today! Information that could save you thousands on credit and insurance... even help you get your next job! Explains the rules, explodes the myths! Up-to-the-minute information on today's radically new credit scoring system from MSN/ L.A. Times personal finance journalist Liz Pulliam Weston. © Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved. Liz Pulliam Weston is a personal finance columnist whose twice-weekly columns for MSN Money reach more than six million people each month. She's also the author of the question-and-answer column Money Talk , which appears in the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers throughout the country. Weston is a weekly guest on CNBC's Power Lunch and has appeared on NBC, Fine Living, PAX TV, and other networks. Formerly a personal finance writer for the Times , Weston has won numerous reporting awards. She was part of a three-member writing team that won a Gerald Loeb Award for coverage of the Comparator Systems penny stock scandal in 1997. She also was a member of the Anchorage Daily News team that won a Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service in 1989 for coverage of the alcoholism epidemic among native Alaskans. Weston is a graduate of the certified financial planner training program at University of California, Irvine. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. © Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.