Before getting prequalified for a mortgage and buying a Gainesville, Florida home, consider these steps to ensure your credit is healthy.
Review Credit Score and Report
The only way to know if you’re ready to buy a home is to figure out your starting point. Your bank can help you review your credit score, and you can request credit reports from the three credit reporting companies. To learn more about your credit reports, visit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau here.
Get Credit Repair
Once you see your information, you can determine if your credit is healthy enough to buy a home. It’s okay if it isn’t. Bad credit isn’t shameful and can happen to anyone for any reason. But if you need to repair your credit to put yourself in a better position for the future, contact a reputable credit repair specialist.
Fix Errors on Your Report
What happens if the information on your credit report isn’t consistent with what you know about your finances? Mistakes happen, but you must work fast to fix them as soon as you discover them. Contact the credit bureaus to open an investigation into the discrepancy so they can help you improve it.
Keep a Good Credit History
To keep your credit history on track, follow these tips:
- Always pay bills on time.
- Keep credit card balances low.
- Don’t close out old credit cards.
- Limit applications for new credit.
- Regularly check your credit report.
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After a career in higher education, Cherrie Hughes pivoted to a real estate career in 2019. She is driven to help the Gainesville community find a path to owning a home and building wealth.
Cherrie worked in higher education in the US and abroad, creating, developing, and managing public/private partnerships, technology commercialization, and translational research.
The compilation of her experiences provided an opportunity to design and direct successful programs worldwide. She identified new funding opportunities, created liaisons for undergraduate and executive programs, and helped manage relationships with private and public partnerships through technology commercialization initiatives.