Virtual Credit Report/FICO Score Basics Class
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About this event
Do you understand what is on your credit report? Do you understand how your credit report impacts your FICO Score? Do you know how to remove inaccurate information on your credit report? Do you know how to put a credit freeze on your credit reports?
Not knowing what is on your credit report can impact your ability to finance a car, rent an apartment, be approved for a credit cards or a home mortgage. Your financial past impacts your ability to have options when it comes to getting what you want. You are responsible for making sure the information on your credit report is accurate.
After this class, you will know where you can access your credit report and the different FICO Scores that are available to consumers.
Organizer Rachel Gerald
Organizer of Virtual Credit Report/FICO Score Basics Class
Rachel Gerald is a financial consultant with Abundant Life Community Outreach. She has a passion to help educate, motivate, equip, empower, and encourage people on their journey to becoming a better money manager.
She earned her baccalaureate degree in finance from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington in 2013 while she was still on active duty in the United States Marine Corps.
She had a desire to pay off all of her consumer debt before she retired from the military and she did just that. She paid off $179,625 in March 2015 in five years. She is now diligently working hard to accomplish other financial goals and building generational wealth.
Rachel has been featured in Time Money Magazine and in other articles and podcasts with Debt Free Divas, Credit.Com, Principles of Increase, His&Her Money, and Trea's Two Cents.
Rachel retired from the military as a Master Sergeant January 2017. She is a frequent speaker at municipal financial functions with the city of Jacksonville, NC and wherever she is called upon to share her message of financial change. Rachel currently resides in Jacksonville, North Carolina.