22
Oct 2007

How to Eliminate Debt

One of the common questions that many of our readers ask is “how do I eliminate debt?” There are many ways to do this, but it all starts with your decision to follow through with a plan. You have to decide that eliminating debt is important enough to temporarily give up a few liberties.

The biggest step is to stop charging purchases on your credit cards. This may be a difficult transition, especially if you rely on credit cards to meet your monthly expenses. This is very important because it will quickly let you know if you can eliminate debt on your own or if you need to get help.

You may have pulled your credit report and paid extra to see your credit score. Perhaps you were happy with it; maybe you expected it to be higher.

What few people realize is that the credit bureaus do not supply you with an actual credit score. It does not match the score supplied to lenders who make the actual lending decisions based on that score. This disclosure is buried in the fine print provided by the credit bureaus.

18
Oct 2007

Hello and welcome!

The Directors of Vision Credit Education, Inc. welcome you to understand the intricacies of credit. We are pleased to provide you with this unique learning environment that combines the expertise of our most knowledgeable volunteer contributors. Over time, you will get to know us by the specialties of our content as well as by our expanding viewpoints on trends in credit and finance.

Credit is an amazingly important concept. We titled this blog as Credit and Debt, and for one simple reason. The purpose of credit is to obtain debt. Debt is not necessarily a bad thing, and we need credit in order to buy the things we want but cannot yet pay for. A modest automobile purchase without credit may at times be possible for many of us, but a home purchase likely is not. Most college experiences require some use of credit.

For these reasons, your ability to gain and utilize credit can help you build wealth through homeownership, finance an automobile to help you go to work, or finance a college education to increase future earnings. All are important investments that can help you lead a more productive life.

We will post content from time to time that will examine the beneficial and detrimental uses of credit. We will explore the nature of credit, the factors that affect credit and the trends of creditors, lenders and debt collectors. We invite your comments (no spam please!) and may periodically address your questions or comments in subsequent postings.

We will attempt to continue making this information publicly available as is required by our charter and tax-exempt status. We want to make sure you have access to the information that we believe is beneficial for the public good. Together we can help spread good credit use techniques and improve the use of credit throughout under served populations.

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