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CHAPTER 4
              CHECKING YOUR CREDIT

              REPORT









              THERE ARE many services out there which claim to offer free access to
              your credit score and credit report. While some of these can be helpful,
              unfortunately, not all of them are reliable enough to be your primary
              source of information.
                 As  with  any  bureaucratic  system,  mistakes  can  creep  into  the
              process  of  calculating  a  credit  report.  For  this  reason,  third  party
              reports offered by sites like Credit Karma and Credit Sesame may not
              actually match what potential landlords, employers, and lenders will
              see  when  they  file  a  formal  credit  check  to  make  a  decision  about
              whether to allow you to rent a property, take out a mortgage or busi-
              ness loan, or any number of countless essential operations that can be
              affected by your credit score.
                 Here  are  some  of  my  favorite  sources  for  accurate  information
              about your credit score, and what nonpayment items might be nega-
              tively affecting it. Once you have this information, you can target these
              negative items for repair.
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