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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

In my previous post, I explained the terms 'balance transfer arbitrage' and 'App-o-rama'. Both strategies are risky, but there are definitely instances where an introductory rate on a credit card can be leveraged in order to give your family finances some breathing room. If you have good credit, if you ...

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Rocketing credit score

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

In March of this year, I shared how our credit score plummeted from 748 to 618 last year.This last month, I paid off the three largest balance transfers that we made during our bank bonus, credit card bonus and stoozing spree. We had borrowed between $11,000 to $13,000 from each ...

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