My Debt Relief Plan

2 Debt Tips for Improving Your Credit Score

May 23rd, 2007

If you are struggling with debt and need to improve your credit score, you need to understand how important financial organization will be. Getting your finances organized will go a long way toward improving your credit score and reducing your debt. So how do you go about making these changes?

Keep Track of All Your Financial Records

This includes your tax records. You need to keep notes on when you paid your bills (you can put this on the bills themselves), as well as noting how much you owe and where you owe this money. By keeping all this financial data together, you can refer to it easily whenever you need to (for example, to dispute a late payment, etc.).

Some of what you’ll want to keep in this financial folder include:

Tax forms and receipts

Bills

Your bank information

All financial forms

A list of contacts (such as yoru bank, credit agencies, and your creditors (mortgage company, credit card companies, etc.).

Your credit reports and scores

All your investment information

Deeds to your assets (house deed, car title, etc.)

Signed agreements for your various loans and any other financial services and obligations you may have

All your insurance forms

You should get a file cabinet with a number of different file folders. Label different file folders according to the various financial topics such as the one’s listed above. You’ll find it much easier to manage your finances by having all this information readily available for you whenever you need to refer to it.

Getting out of debt and fixing your credit score takes time and effort. Understand that it will take time. You don’t climb out of debt and repair your credit score overnight.

In order to make progress as quickly as possible you need to keep track of that progress and have goals that you are looking to accomplish in a certain time period. By having all your financial information readily available you can constantly monitor your financial situation and keep track of the progress you are making on your debt levels.

Make sure your debt goals are specific. Don’t set goals such as “get out of debt.” This is far too broad and not nearly urgent enough. A much better goal is something like “reduce my debt by $5,000 by December 31st of this year.” That’s something you can measure and monitor and setting a debt adds urgency to the goal.

Getting your debt and financial information organized, combined with a proper goal setting plan, will go a long way toward reducing your debt and improving your credit score as quickly as you possibly can.

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