In the Beginning…Building Credit–A Case Study

In this world there surely must be others like me: people without credit cards and some questionable credit history.  Because I owned nothing and only made payments on student loans, I was sure I didn’t have any credit, or rather, I was sure I didn’t have any good credit.  You see, there are some disputed credit issues in my past (disagreements with certain unnamed companies), and I thought for sure those were lingering over my head.  I was curious just how bad my credit was.
So, I clicked a link on LoanShrimp.com (over in the sidebar) and went to creditreport.com.  It wasn’t hard to do.
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