In these days of tighter credit, it is more important than ever that our credit scores stay clean and free from mistakes.

One of the ways to insure everything is okay is to do a credit check on ourselves.

We’ve known for a long time that we can get our updated credit scores for free from all three of the big companies  once a year. 

https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp

Here’s the bonus  credit check tip.

Since we can get a free credit check from all three companies every year, why not spread them out?

Use a different company every four months.  That way you will keep your credit record current absolutely free.  You can rest easy knowing everything  about your credit score  will not be more than  four months old.  

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