Your Credit Scores: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
Are Your Finances Healthy or High Risk?
By Suze Orman
I know you know your SAT score.
And I bet you know your cholesterol score.
Some of you could probably rip off the phone numbers of old boyfriends and girlfriends you haven’t spoken to in 10 years.
So tell me something. If you’re so good with numbers, why don’t you know your credit score?
I recently spoke to a large audience of successful business people and asked them if they knew their FICO score. I got plenty of reassuring nods. But I know better. A few minutes later, when I mentioned how to get your FICO credit score, everyone whipped out their pens and Blackberrys to take down the info.
It never fails: no matter who’s in the audience, I typically get a 70 to 90 percent failure rate when I ask who knows their credit score and why it matters.
This has got to stop. Right now.
