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Caruso Never Sleeps ~ Hard VS Soft Credit Inquiries

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Real Estate Agent with Surterre Properties

Do you know what a Hard versus Soft Credit Inquiry is?

 

Consumers are entitled to a free copy of their credit report once a year, available through sites like CreditKeeper.com, AnnualCreditReport.com or IdentiryGuard.com. While the credit report from AnnualCreditReport.com is free, it doesn’t include a credit score. For this, consumers must pay a nominal fee.

 

When a consumer asks about their own credit score, it’s considered a “soft inquiry”, which doesn’t impact their FICO score. Credit card, insurance companies, banks, and others can also make soft inquires, in order to identify consumers for marketing purposes. 

 

In contrast, “hard inquires” for a consumer’s credit history are made if you apple for a loan, a mortgage, or open a new credit card. Depending on other factors, too many hard inquiries could have a negative impact on a consumers FICO score.

 

 

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Comments (1)

Debbie Laity
Cedaredge Land Company - Cedaredge, CO
Your Real Estate Resource for Delta County, CO

Thanks for the refresher course, and you are right, you can get a credit report for free, but your score is going to cost you.

Feb 25, 2012 07:09 AM