Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
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Advantage Credit Now Offers Tax Transcript Services for Day 1 Certainty™
- October 4, 2017
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: Press Releases
No CommentsEvergreen, CO – October 4, 2017: Advantage Credit, Inc., a leading provider of credit reporting and verification services, is pleased to announce they are now an approved report distributor for 4506-T Tax Transcript services for Day 1 Certainty from Fannie Mae. Day 1 Certainty from Fannie Mae, announced in October 2016, provides Fannie Mae customers
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The Equifax Breach – What You Need to Know
- September 28, 2017
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: News
So you’ve found out you were one of the 143 million people who were possibly compromised by the Equifax breach. What exactly does that mean and what should you do now? What it means is that hackers stole names, addresses, social security numbers and even driver’s license information. In some cases all this information was
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FICO Score, FAKO Scores and FICO 09
- September 14, 2017
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: News
FICO scores can be confusing to say the least. In reality a person has many different FICO (Fair Isaac Company) scores depending on what they are applying for and the codes that are being used to pull the credit report. What about when we pull our own credit report? Are we getting real FICO scores?
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Revolving Accounts – What You Need To Know
- August 31, 2017
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: News
Revolving balances play an important role in your credit score calculation. The total of your revolving debt makes up about 30% of your credit score. Balances on installment loans don’t have any where near the impact on credit scores as revolving balances do. While having a revolving balance or two can help your credit scores,
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Advantage Credit Offers New Lead Generation Tool
- August 15, 2017
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: Press Releases
Evergreen, CO – August 15, 2017 – Advantage Credit, Inc., a leading provider of credit reporting and client retention services, is pleased to announce that they now offer iScreen℠ from Experian. iScreen is a fast, affordable, self-service prescreen and list fulfillment tool; It helps users identify potential customers that may be looking for a mortgage
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How Accurate Are Credit Score Simulators?
- July 13, 2017
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: News
Your loan officer has pulled your credit and your scores are just a little short of where they need to be. He thinks there are possibilities for an improvement so he runs a “What If Simulator” to see what could possibly be done to get the scores a little higher. Most of the time, this
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Is Being Debt Free a Good Idea?
- June 15, 2017
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: News
You’ve sold your home, paid off the car and all your credit cards and even closed most of them. You are completely debt free! This is great…right? Well, not when it comes to your credit score. Believe it or not, being completely debt free can actually hurt your credit scores. While it may feel wonderful
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Liens & Judgments Reporting Powered by LexisNexis® and available through Advantage Credit, Inc.
- May 30, 2017
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: Press Releases
Evergreen, Colo., May 30, 2017 – Advantage Credit, Inc. has partnered with LexisNexis to provide superior public record data and linking technology that maximizes search accuracy. The following Advantage Credit report will identify the presence of liens and judgments: The Liens & Judgments Report An FCRA-compliant report containing detailed lien and judgment records associated with
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Advantage Credit Now Available on Encompass Loan Officer Connect™
- May 11, 2017
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: Press Releases
Evergreen, Colo., May 11, 2017 – Advantage Credit, Inc., a leading provider of credit reporting services to the mortgage industry, is pleased to announce that they have been added to Ellie Mae’s Encompass Loan Officer Connect™ program. Users will now have the ability to choose Advantage Credit as their credit provider within the mobile platform.
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A New and Dangerous Form of Identity Theft
- May 4, 2017
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: News
“Synthetic Identity Theft” now makes up 80% of all ID thefts in the country at this time. Never heard of it? A lot of people haven’t. What is it? A thief takes one piece of your true identity (usually a social security number) and then combines it with false information such as a different name,