What is Credit?
Simply stated, credit is a testament of your abilities as a borrower. The way in which creditors and lending institutions verify your credit worthiness is by examining your credit history, which acts as a record of your past activities as a borrower in handling credit.
Credit agencies, or credit bureaus, collect important information about you concerning your credit history and then makes that information available to lending agencies. This report is based on a number of factors, of which the most important is your history as a borrower. The different factors are then computed together to make a number called a credit score.
Though the primary use of credit scoring is to enable lenders to easily and accurately judge your abilities as a borrower, credit scores have also been adapted for other means. For example, if you plan to rent a property, such as an apartment, a town home or an office space, your credit report will be evaluated in order to judge your ability to make timely payments.
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