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Saturday, April 16, 2011

Being 30 Days Late On House Payment Can Knock 100 Points Off Credit Score

Usually very closed-mouth about how it calculates scores, FICO released a whole bunch of data about how being late on your mortgage payments affects your credit score. For instance, being 30 days later on a mortgage payment can chop your 780 credit score down to 670. And a short sale or deed-in-lieu of foreclosure will hurt your score just as bad as a foreclosure if the service reports it as having a deficiency amount or an unpaid balance. Yikes! Here's some sexy tables with more details:

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1 comment:

genie said...

Boy that is alarming. 30 days late on mortgage knocks 100 points off your credit score. What a racket.