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CREDIT KARMA: What You Need To Know

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Everyone has Credit Karma, it seems. The app offers you a way to get credit scores and reports from two of the three major credit reporting companies, TransUnion and Equifax.

The biggest plus for Credit Karma is the app is FREE! It’s hard to beat that. These free reports come in handy to spot inaccuracies to correct and improve your credit. You even get a credit score. Great, right?

While Credit Karma will give you A SCORE, they do not provide you with THE SCORE. Credit Karma will not give you the FICO Score. That is the score lenders will look at when they process your mortgage application.

Therefore, many times the score from Credit Karma will differ greatly from the scores the lenders use.

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