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PostPosted: Sat, Jan 15 2005, 7:07 am EST    Post subject: Make the most of your credit reports

How to impress lenders
Make the most of your credit reports, what hurts your credit score -- and how to improve it.

January 14, 2005: 11:55 AM EST
By Jonah Freedman, MONEY Magazine

NEW YORK (MONEY Magazine) - Evan Hendricks wants to arm you with knowledge. His exhaustive Credit Scores and Credit Reports is a new, plain-English guide to what consumers need to know about this arcane topic, a strange universe filled with pitfalls and fine print that makes the tax code read like Dr. Seuss.

As the book makes clear, it's a subject we ignore at our peril: Credit scoring is more than ever having a serious effect on all our lives.

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