3 Easy Ways to Improve Your Credit Score 2024-03-11 If you’ve never actively worked to improve your credit, a credit score might seem like black magic. You may understand that scores run from 300 to 850 More
Credit Alphabet Soup: Popular Credit Reporting Acronyms Explained 2024-03-05 “John, I recently applied for a mortgage loan and I thought the broker was going to pull my credit report. Instead, she pulled something she called an More
How to Teach Your Kids About Money 2024-03-03 There’s a specific conversation I frequently have with people around my age. As they get closer to middle adulthood and look back on everything they’v More
Mint Success: Going From Carrying Debt to Paying it Off 2024-03-01 Once upon a time, Scott Henderson used credit cards like “free money,” maxing out his balances and getting cash advances to pay for wedding expenses & More
What Every Student Should Know About Student Loans 2024-02-19 Teenagers tend to have few financial obligations. They may need to work a part-time job to earn spending money, but generally, no one is expecting the More
Why Mortgage Lenders Pull All Three of Your Credit Reports 2024-02-14 Have you checked the mortgage interest rates lately?If you’ve got excellent credit you can get mortgage loans with interest rates near or below 3.5%, More
How To Pick The Best Travel Credit Card For You 2024-02-13 From the Mint team: As you know, Mint is a free product you can use to help stay on top of your finances. So, how do we make money? We get paid by the More
How to Get Rid of Closed Accounts on Credit Reports 2024-02-07 When you finally pay off a credit card it feels like an easy next step to celebrate your zero balance by closing your account and forgetting about it More
What You Need To Know About Student Credit Cards 2024-02-05 Before my husband and I got married, we had a conversation about merging our finances. I wasn’t too worried about his financial habits – he’s al More
Are You a Revolver or a Transactor? The New Way Credit Bureaus Report Your Data 2024-02-03 “Hello John. Last week, for the first time in many years, I pulled a copy of my credit reports from all three of the credit reporting agencies. It loo More