About Your Credit Score

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Before lenders make the decision to lend you money, they want to know that you are willing and able to repay that loan. To assess your ability to repay, lenders assess your debt-to-income ratio. To assess how willing you are to repay, they use your credit score.

Fair Isaac and Company built the first FICO score to help lenders assess creditworthiness. For details on FICO, read more here.

Your credit score comes from your history of repayment. They don't consider income or personal characteristics. These scores were invented specifically for this reason. Credit scoring was developed to assess willingness to repay the loan while specifically excluding any other demographic factors.

Deliquencies, payment behavior, debt level, length of credit history, types of credit and number of inquiries are all considered in credit scores. Your score reflects the good and the bad of your credit report. Late payments count against your score, but a record of paying on time will raise it.

Your credit report must have at least one account which has been open for six months or more, and at least one account that has been updated in the past six months for you to get a credit score. This payment history ensures that there is sufficient information in your report to generate a score. If you don't meet the criteria for getting a score, you might need to work on your credit history before you apply for a mortgage.

Victoria Capital Mortgage Company can answer your questions about credit reporting. Call us at 408.399.0103.