During the challenge I will share everything that I've done to personally build and clean my own credit.
Some of the top tools I've used and love
The Top 3 Tools I’ve used to build and manage my credit. Self Inc. Capital One and Experian. I used Self to diversified my credit AND save money. Capitol One gave me my first credit builder credit card. And Experian allowed me to keep a close eye on my credit. I’m able to lock my credit to prevent fraud AND use the boost feature to raise my credit score.
2 Systems I've Created and put in place
Here’s the thing, building credit is HARD and managing credit is even harder. So I’ve created 2 simple systems to help me stay on TOP of my credit.
- LATE is not my thing. I have a 100% on-time payment history. ALL of my bills are on time every single month.
- I DO NOT MAX OUT MY CREDIT CARDS. I make sure there’s a small balance on each card but I never let my cards go over 15% usage.
How I properly budget myself
Budgeting is not sexy and it’s hard as hell. So most people don’t do it. BUT it’s extremely important when it comes to building and managing credit. Here’s what I do; I decide how much money I’m spending each month and I put ALL of my monthly expenses on my highest limit credit card and I make a payment on it 3x per month. That way I’m not looking at a big balance at the end of the month. I now do that with my personal expenses on my new Discover credit card and my business expenses on my Capital One Spark Business credit card.
And how I make MONEY cleaning my credit.
And my FAVORITE part!! Did you know you can make MONEY while building your credit? Girlll, YES YOU CAN!! Here are 3 ways I personally make money; Self Financial Affiliate program. Every time you help your family and friends build credit you get a CHECK in the mail from SELF. I also make $500 a year from EACH, Capital One, and Discover a new affiliate program AND I recently added to the lineup, CHIME. And with Chime we BOTH get $75 when signing up for Chime and signup for Direct Deposit.