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credit score - few questions
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I have another question.. sorry! does it really affect your score negatively the more you check your score?0
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Typical lenders do not use your CRA 'credit score', so it does not really matter. When you access your three credit files' it is recorded as a soft search only, so it does not negatively impact upon your credit file.
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Not if you check them at night when everyone's asleep...*georgia_c said:does it really affect your score negatively the more you check your score? 0 -
A sudden decrease in the score will alert you to something negative within.SlovakianGuy said:Don't just check your "score".
I caught an erroneous CCJ being put on my account this way. Obviously I would have found it looking through the whole report but the sudden 300 points drop told me something was amiss!0
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