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- 0:02Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. It
- 0:05Speaker 1: is a time now.
- 0:06Speaker 2: For two on what was the problem as we speak
- 0:08Speaker 2: with our friends here from a Truity Credit union. And
- 0:12Speaker 2: it's great to have everybody in here today. Beautiful day, today,
- 0:15Speaker 2: beautiful day.
- 0:16Speaker 1: All the way around.
- 0:18Speaker 2: We have Stephen Meyer and also Laura Gorman in today and.
- 0:23Speaker 1: We got a little bit about credit. Everybody likes to
- 0:26Speaker 1: get credit for something.
- 0:27Speaker 2: Well, this time we're talking a little bit about credit
- 0:31Speaker 2: as far as money is concerned and how you can
- 0:35Speaker 2: obtain credit. So Steve, first of all, it's identified what
- 0:38Speaker 2: is credit, Stephen, So, credit.
- 0:42Speaker 3: The real technical term for it, not technical generic term
- 0:45Speaker 3: for it is a credit is an agreement between a
- 0:48Speaker 3: borrower and the linda and typically that agreement involves interest
- 0:53Speaker 3: earned over time. Okay, So that's just the basic definition
- 0:56Speaker 3: of what is credit, okay, Alan.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Basically, how does one obtain I guess I say, how
- 1:02Speaker 2: do you develop?
- 1:03Speaker 1: How do you build up good credit?
- 1:05Speaker 3: So credit that what people are most commonly referring to
- 1:08Speaker 3: when they say you know what your credit look like?
- 1:10Speaker 3: They're meaning you're what's your credit score? So credit score
- 1:13Speaker 3: is typically a three digit number between two fifty and
- 1:16Speaker 3: nine hundred. And the way that you build that credit
- 1:20Speaker 3: is taking out loans. You actually get credit built by
- 1:25Speaker 3: getting loans from banks, credit unions, other lenders, financial institutions.
- 1:31Speaker 3: So the credit score, like I said, two fifty is
- 1:34Speaker 3: a low number. Nine hundred is the highest you can get.
- 1:37Speaker 3: A good credit scorer is probably in like the seven
- 1:40Speaker 3: hundred range. A great credit score is an eight hundred,
- 1:44Speaker 3: and that'll get you the best rate on things. So
- 1:47Speaker 3: banks and credit unions are not required to actually report
- 1:51Speaker 3: things to credit, so the credit is actually it's a
- 1:57Speaker 3: voluntary thing for us to report credit to the bureaus.
- 2:00Speaker 3: So there's three different bureaus out there. There's TransUnion, Equifax.
- 2:03Speaker 1: And Experience.
- 2:04Speaker 3: So these three bureaus have all this information from all
- 2:08Speaker 3: the different lenders and they kind of keep track of
- 2:10Speaker 3: what all the banks and credit unions send to them.
- 2:13Speaker 3: So over time, to build your credit, you want to
- 2:16Speaker 3: take out as multiple loans, not as many loans as
- 2:19Speaker 3: you can, but multiple loans, different types of loans. So
- 2:22Speaker 3: like say you have a credit card loan, you've got
- 2:25Speaker 3: an auto loan, you've got a mortgage loan. The more
- 2:28Speaker 3: different types of loans you have can help your credit
- 2:31Speaker 3: and also paying regular timely payments.
- 2:34Speaker 1: It's kind of important.
- 2:36Speaker 3: It's very important to pay them timely. Yes, timely is
- 2:40Speaker 3: a very important guess.
- 2:42Speaker 2: Because if you don't pay them at all, that's going
- 2:44Speaker 2: to go down to like a golf score real quick.
- 2:46Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 2:47Speaker 3: To get the best credit score, it takes a little
- 2:50Speaker 3: bit of time. So you have to have multiple loans
- 2:52Speaker 3: out there, and you have to make the good payments,
- 2:54Speaker 3: and it takes.
- 2:54Speaker 1: A couple of years to build up your credit score. Wow.
- 2:57Speaker 2: I remember in college I wanted to buy something and
- 3:01Speaker 2: they said, well, let's get you on the credit plan.
- 3:04Speaker 1: I said, well, what's that?
- 3:05Speaker 2: Being just a rogue from Indiana in the nineteen seventies,
- 3:10Speaker 2: I said, you mean in order for me to buy
- 3:12Speaker 2: something here, you want me to finance it for eighty dollars.
- 3:15Speaker 2: I'll come back when I got eighty dollars. And I
- 3:18Speaker 2: didn't realize that the guy was trying to help me. Yeah,
- 3:20Speaker 2: because I was twenty. He said, this is how you
- 3:26Speaker 2: developed this. And then then I kind of went back
- 3:29Speaker 2: hit the books and learned a little something about it.
- 3:31Speaker 1: But it is important, especially when you're younger.
- 3:34Speaker 2: If your parents haven't taught you about it, get on
- 3:36Speaker 2: the barn of the folks at Truity, and you can
- 3:39Speaker 2: talk to Stephen.
- 3:40Speaker 1: Or Laura about this.
- 3:41Speaker 2: Now, Laura, what are some of the common misconceptions about credit?
- 3:46Speaker 4: Well, there's a lot, but there's three that I really
- 3:49Speaker 4: like to highlight for folks trying to understand credit. The
- 3:52Speaker 4: first one is there's only one score. So, as Steven
- 3:56Speaker 4: alluded to, there's three credit bureaus, TransUnion, Equofox, Experience, and
- 4:00Speaker 4: they each calculate a credit score differently. And then within
- 4:05Speaker 4: the bureaus they have what are called score models, So
- 4:08Speaker 4: there are different models utilized for different purposes. So if
- 4:13Speaker 4: you want to evaluate someone's ability to repay on a mortgage,
- 4:17Speaker 4: you may have a model that's very heavily weighted on
- 4:20Speaker 4: their secured performance, how they pay auto loans, mortgages, things
- 4:23Speaker 4: of that nature. If you're extending credit for a credit
- 4:26Speaker 4: card or an unsecured loan, you want to understand what
- 4:29Speaker 4: their performance history for unsecured repayment looks like. So each
- 4:34Speaker 4: each bureau looks differently, and then within those bureaus they
- 4:39Speaker 4: have different score models depending on what the lender really
- 4:42Speaker 4: wants to evaluate, and those do evolve over time. There's
- 4:46Speaker 4: new models called a vantage score. That is essentially all
- 4:50Speaker 4: three bureaus that came together and said, hey, let's collaborate,
- 4:53Speaker 4: let's develop this score model. The newer ones are very predictive,
- 4:58Speaker 4: so they're not including some medical collecttiontions, you know, we
- 5:02Speaker 4: call them slow pays, but over thirty days on certain
- 5:04Speaker 4: tradelines don't impair your credit score quite as much. So
- 5:08Speaker 4: as things evolve in the industry and just consumer behavior,
- 5:12Speaker 4: those score models evolve too. So it's kind of like
- 5:14Speaker 4: an iPhone, you have all these updates. So score models
- 5:18Speaker 4: are kind of like that. They're the updated score predictor
- 5:21Speaker 4: for how someone's actually going to repay on credit. So
- 5:24Speaker 4: that's the biggest one because we hear that a lot,
- 5:27Speaker 4: Hey I looked at credit Karma and this is my
- 5:31Speaker 4: score model. But then they apply for a loan and
- 5:33Speaker 4: we have something different. And so that's why it doesn't
- 5:36Speaker 4: mean that one is wrong or one is right. It
- 5:38Speaker 4: just means there might be a different bureau and a
- 5:41Speaker 4: different score model. The other thing is people have this
- 5:45Speaker 4: misconception that if you check your credit score it hurts it.
- 5:50Speaker 4: It's good to check your credit because fraud is so prevalent.
- 5:54Speaker 4: Unfortunately these days, people you know, these scams seem so legitimate,
- 5:59Speaker 4: and so people are going to buy their home or
- 6:01Speaker 4: buy a car and then surprise, someone stole their identity
- 6:05Speaker 4: and they've opened all these tradelines that they know nothing about.
- 6:08Speaker 4: So it's great to check your credit score. I think
- 6:10Speaker 4: it's a free annual credit report dot com. You can
- 6:13Speaker 4: get a free report each year from each of the bureaus.
- 6:17Speaker 4: So we say every four months, go ahead and get
- 6:19Speaker 4: one of those from each of the bureaus. Because some
- 6:22Speaker 4: institutions may report to TransUnion, only some may report to Equifax,
- 6:26Speaker 4: so it's good to see what each of.
- 6:28Speaker 5: The bureau reports.
- 6:29Speaker 4: One thing that Truity really prides itself on is obviously
- 6:33Speaker 4: serving our members. And so when you become a member,
- 6:36Speaker 4: we have free digital banking, and when you enroll in that,
- 6:39Speaker 4: we have a tool and it's called my Credit. It's
- 6:42Speaker 4: completely free, you're automatically enrolled and you get a free
- 6:46Speaker 4: daily credit report. It's through TransUnion. But you can see
- 6:49Speaker 4: your score, you can see your tradelines, your payment history.
- 6:53Speaker 4: If you want to set financial goals for yourself, say
- 6:56Speaker 4: you're that you know that twenty year old adult young
- 6:59Speaker 4: adul who is wanting to establish credit because you want
- 7:03Speaker 4: to buy a house. It helps you set up those
- 7:05Speaker 4: goals so you can achieve what you want with your
- 7:08Speaker 4: credit and be able to qualify for the home loan
- 7:13Speaker 4: or the card loan later on. And then also, I
- 7:16Speaker 4: think the other big misconception is closing credit cards will
- 7:19Speaker 4: help your credit score. When you think of credit scores,
- 7:23Speaker 4: a third of it, as you and Stephen talked about,
- 7:26Speaker 4: just pay on time, that's about a third of your score.
- 7:28Speaker 4: But another third of that is what we call capacity,
- 7:31Speaker 4: and that's your ability to borrow. So when you have
- 7:33Speaker 4: credit cards and you max them out, it reduces your capacity,
- 7:38Speaker 4: which can drop your score. But say you pay one
- 7:40Speaker 4: of those off, well, you have the ability to borrow
- 7:43Speaker 4: on that card that you've paid off, so you have
- 7:46Speaker 4: better capacity, which means your score can go up. So
- 7:49Speaker 4: if you have three cards and you pay two of
- 7:51Speaker 4: those off, and you have one with a balance, and
- 7:54Speaker 4: you decide to close the two cards you've paid, that
- 7:58Speaker 4: hurts your capacity because you no longer or have that
- 8:00Speaker 4: bandwidth to borrow, and that will in turn be evaluated
- 8:04Speaker 4: and drop your score. So we always tell people pay
- 8:07Speaker 4: it off, be responsible. Credit cards are kind of a
- 8:10Speaker 4: double edged sword. If you use them responsibly, you pay
- 8:13Speaker 4: them in full, you don't pay interest, you can get
- 8:15Speaker 4: a lot of points. Come talk to Trudy about credit cards.
- 8:18Speaker 4: We can that's another day, but we can help you there.
- 8:22Speaker 5: But if you use.
- 8:24Speaker 4: Them responsibly, it can certainly help your credit score. You
- 8:27Speaker 4: just don't want to get maxed out and tied into
- 8:29Speaker 4: these interest payments and high rates things like that. But
- 8:33Speaker 4: we definitely when you pay it off, don't close it
- 8:35Speaker 4: because it hurts your capacity. And that's a thirty year score.
- 8:39Speaker 1: Laura, I'm glad you brought up the.
- 8:42Speaker 2: Credit score thing that you can get through Trudy because
- 8:45Speaker 2: when I open up my little email that I get
- 8:47Speaker 2: from Truding every now and again, it's like it's like
- 8:50Speaker 2: a little speedometer.
- 8:51Speaker 1: Well it did it choose you? How fast you're going? Well,
- 8:53Speaker 1: how your credit's going?
- 8:54Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's great because if people don't understand credit
- 8:57Speaker 4: and they really want to improve. We even have certified
- 9:00Speaker 4: crediting and financial counselors that will work with you on that.
- 9:02Speaker 4: And that's a free service to our members and we
- 9:04Speaker 4: would love people to come in. We'll sit down, set
- 9:07Speaker 4: up some time, do some credit education. It's great.
- 9:11Speaker 1: Steven, what else could you do to wreck your credit?
- 9:14Speaker 3: Well, wrecking your credit's pretty easy.
- 9:17Speaker 1: I've got a brother who's i think a master's degree
- 9:20Speaker 1: in this.
- 9:20Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 9:20Speaker 1: Okay.
- 9:21Speaker 3: But so a real simple bad thing you can do
- 9:24Speaker 3: is make late payments. So there's a difference between just
- 9:27Speaker 3: a late pay like say ten days late, but it's
- 9:30Speaker 3: thirty days or more late. It's going to report to
- 9:33Speaker 3: your credit it So once you hit that thirty day mark,
- 9:36Speaker 3: it's gonna be a ding on your credit. So anybody
- 9:39Speaker 3: that looks at your credit anytime after that, it's going
- 9:41Speaker 3: to see you made that payment late, and your score
- 9:44Speaker 3: is going to drop instantly. As soon as that hits
- 9:47Speaker 3: out there, it's instantly dropping. That's the thing. The other
- 9:51Speaker 3: bad things you can do. So, sixty days late is a.
- 9:54Speaker 1: Real credit wrecord. So that's a flag on the play.
- 9:57Speaker 3: Yeah, so sixty days depending on what type of loan
- 9:59Speaker 3: it is. If it's an auto loan and you hit
- 10:01Speaker 3: sixty days late, there's probably a repossession order.
- 10:04Speaker 1: I've got to shay, you're walking. Yeah, you're well, you're
- 10:06Speaker 1: going to be walking real soon.
- 10:07Speaker 3: Yeah, credit cards, you know, sixty days, ninety days late,
- 10:12Speaker 3: it'll eventually go to collection and all those the severity
- 10:16Speaker 3: of how late you are makes your credit score even lower.
- 10:19Speaker 3: So you could go from an eight hundred to a
- 10:20Speaker 3: five hundred really quick by just missing a couple of payments.
- 10:23Speaker 3: So you've got to make your payments on time. Number
- 10:26Speaker 3: one other bad things. Bankruptcy can affect your credit for
- 10:30Speaker 3: up to ten years. That stays on your credit out there.
- 10:33Speaker 3: If you have judgments against you, tax liens, collections. Say
- 10:37Speaker 3: you don't pay a cell phone bill and they've been
- 10:40Speaker 3: trying to get a hold of you.
- 10:41Speaker 1: For a year to get that paid, it's going to
- 10:43Speaker 1: report to credit.
- 10:44Speaker 3: Even though they're not a lender alone, they will report
- 10:48Speaker 3: that to credit. And you've got that twelve hundred dollars
- 10:50Speaker 3: cell phone bill out there that is now a collection
- 10:53Speaker 3: and it's going to wreck your credit. So just paying
- 10:56Speaker 3: your bills good.
- 10:57Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got to pay your bills. You can't say yeah,
- 11:03Speaker 1: you got to do it. You gotta do it.
- 11:04Speaker 2: Laura Crueity offers a lot of products and special offerings
- 11:08Speaker 2: that help us build credit.
- 11:11Speaker 1: Can you elaborate absolutely?
- 11:13Speaker 4: So, we have several that are good for not only
- 11:16Speaker 4: establishing credit, but rebuilding. So, as Steven talked about, sometimes
- 11:20Speaker 4: you know and what we see a lot of times
- 11:21Speaker 4: with bad credit. Is life happened to a good person
- 11:24Speaker 4: and it's just out of control.
- 11:28Speaker 2: You know.
- 11:28Speaker 4: We've seen people that had medical stuff and that's impaired
- 11:30Speaker 4: their credit and that's not something they chose. And so
- 11:34Speaker 4: when you're rebuilding or young adult trying to establish, we
- 11:37Speaker 4: do have some good options. We have a share secured
- 11:40Speaker 4: credit card, and so essentially you place your money as
- 11:43Speaker 4: a pledge, but you get the tangible convenience of that
- 11:46Speaker 4: plastic card. So that's a great option. It's very popular
- 11:51Speaker 4: to start out with. We also have more traditional share
- 11:54Speaker 4: in certificate secured loans where you can put your money
- 11:57Speaker 4: in a savings account or you can put it in
- 11:59Speaker 4: a certificate of deposit and we'll use that as a
- 12:02Speaker 4: pledge and you pay that back more as an installment loan,
- 12:05Speaker 4: so you pay it when it's paid in full, it's
- 12:07Speaker 4: paid off, whereas the credit card you continue to build
- 12:10Speaker 4: that credit history. So it's just a personal preference, but
- 12:13Speaker 4: we do have those options. The other thing that I
- 12:16Speaker 4: really like to highlight, especially this time of year, is
- 12:18Speaker 4: we have grad loans. So we have a program that's
- 12:21Speaker 4: specific for recent college grads and it can be a university,
- 12:26Speaker 4: it could be a votech school, but usually within six
- 12:29Speaker 4: months of their graduation is when they're looking for those.
- 12:32Speaker 4: And we understand their young professionals going into the workforce,
- 12:36Speaker 4: they've done specialized training or degree, and we don't want
- 12:40Speaker 4: them to start off getting an auto loan with seventeen
- 12:43Speaker 4: percent interest rate. So we have some great pricing benefits.
- 12:47Speaker 4: We really have some good programs just simply did you graduate,
- 12:50Speaker 4: do you have proof of that are you going into
- 12:53Speaker 4: a career in your field of study? And it is
- 12:55Speaker 4: for those limited to no credit folks because typically they
- 12:59Speaker 4: go buy a vehicle, it's a really high interest rate
- 13:01Speaker 4: because they have no experience. So people think you're a
- 13:04Speaker 4: higher risk and we need to offset well at Truity,
- 13:08Speaker 4: we understand you're just a young professional. You're not a risk.
- 13:11Speaker 4: You're someone who's trying to get their footing started and
- 13:14Speaker 4: we do believe in growing with our members. So those
- 13:17Speaker 4: are some of the benefits that we have. And one
- 13:20Speaker 4: of the things Stephen talked about is that diversification in
- 13:22Speaker 4: your credit that credit mix. You're unsecured and you're secured
- 13:26Speaker 4: your mortgage, you're auto in your credit cards. So we
- 13:28Speaker 4: have products in all of those, you know with the
- 13:32Speaker 4: graduate program, so it can help establish that credit mix
- 13:35Speaker 4: and really get someone headed in the right direction when
- 13:38Speaker 4: it comes to credit.
- 13:39Speaker 2: You know there are people out there who are listening
- 13:41Speaker 2: driving around right now or maybe at home or at work.
- 13:45Speaker 2: We're ething a big sigh of relief because I know
- 13:48Speaker 2: there are a lot of people, not everybody, but the
- 13:50Speaker 2: times have been kind of dicey over the last five years,
- 13:53Speaker 2: and there are some folks who are really.
- 13:55Speaker 1: Just peetering on the edge.
- 13:58Speaker 2: And to know that there's some help out there and
- 14:00Speaker 2: now understanding maybe what they might be knee deep into
- 14:03Speaker 2: or approaching the waters, I think you just kind of
- 14:07Speaker 2: sent out a little bit of a you know, a
- 14:09Speaker 2: life preserver to them there with a little bit of
- 14:12Speaker 2: knowledge here and also with the invitation to get on
- 14:16Speaker 2: board with the Truity credit. Your your website's a phenomenal and.
- 14:20Speaker 3: I would just remind people if you're having if you
- 14:22Speaker 3: know that you're not going to be able to make
- 14:23Speaker 3: a payment, contact your lender, let them know and rather
- 14:28Speaker 3: than just letting it laps, call them and they can
- 14:30Speaker 3: work things out for you. They can give you, they
- 14:32Speaker 3: can give you some help. We have a great credit
- 14:34Speaker 3: Resolutions department at Trudy, and they are more than happy
- 14:37Speaker 3: to help you.
- 14:38Speaker 1: They want to help.
- 14:38Speaker 3: You make those payments sometimes, Mike, but if you can't,
- 14:41Speaker 3: they will help you get past that. Everybody goes through
- 14:45Speaker 3: little tough times, like Laura mentioned, Like you mentioned, it's
- 14:48Speaker 3: been pretty dicey lately. So if you're having trouble, contact
- 14:51Speaker 3: your lender.
- 14:52Speaker 2: Wow, this is great and it's a Truity see you
- 14:57Speaker 2: dot org. Yes, it's a one place, magnificent little website
- 15:02Speaker 2: that's easy to navigate. Even an old store like me
- 15:05Speaker 2: can do it. Thank you for being on board with
- 15:07Speaker 2: us today.
- 15:08Speaker 4: Thanks for having us, Thanks for listening to one on
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