Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
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Advantage Credit Receives SOC 2 Report on Controls Related to Security at Advantage Credit, Inc. Issued by Linford & Company LLP
- April 4, 2017
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: Press Releases
No CommentsAdvantage Credit Receives SOC 2 Report on Controls Related to Security at Advantage Credit, Inc. Issued by Linford & Company LLP Evergreen, Colo., April 4, 2017 – Advantage Credit, Inc. today announced that the company has undergone a Type I Service Organization Control 2 examination resulting in a CPA’s report stating that management of Advantage
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When a Lender Pulls Your Credit Report
- March 30, 2017
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: News
You’re going to buy a home and you’ve gone to one of the many resources to pull a copy of your personal credit report, but is it the same as the credit report your lender will see? As far as the content, it probably is; as far as your credit scores, probably not. The scores
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Checking Your Credit Report is a MUST!
- March 9, 2017
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: News
Approximately one-third of the population doesn’t check their credit reports every year. Almost one-fourth have never checked them at all. Not checking your credit report on a periodic basis puts you at a lot of risk. The good news is that checking your credit reports is a very simple thing to do. A government study
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Credit Bureaus to Step Up Public Record Accuracy
- February 9, 2017
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: News
As the result of discussions between a group of state Attorney Generals and the three major credit reporting agencies (Experian, Trans Union, Equifax) the National Consumer Assistance Plan (NCAP) was announced in 2015. The plan is designed to provide more transparency and accuracy in consumer credit reports. The major focus of this change will be
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Starting 2017 Right
- January 18, 2017
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: News
Christmas is over…the decorations have been taken down and presents have been opened. New accounts have also been opened, credit cards have been maxed out, savings accounts have been drained and probably so has your credit score. And now, here come the bills. Now is the time to look ahead and start doing some damage
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Advantage Credit Introduces FACTCheck™
- January 5, 2017
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: Press Releases
Evergreen, Colo., January 5, 2017 – Advantage Credit, Inc. is pleased to announce the introduction of FACTCheck™. This solution allows lenders to calculate and validate the income used to determine and prove ability-to-repay (ATR) decisions. FACTCheck uses advanced analytics to review and compare income data residing in a variety of different documents, including tax returns,
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What’s Not Included in a Credit Score
- December 22, 2016
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: News
There is always a lot of talk about everything that IS included in credit scores, like how to make them better and what hurts them. But there is a lot of information that is not part of a credit score that some people have always thought were factored in. Here is what is NOT included
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Advantage Credit Donates to St. Jude’s In Honor of Their Customers
- December 6, 2016
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: Press Releases
It is that time once again, the time for hot cocoa, tinsel, trees, gifts and Santa! The Most Wonderful Time of the Year as the song goes. The holidays are the designated time to slow down and spend carefree time with family and friends. Unfortunately, there are some families that are unable to do that
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Advantage Credit Announces DU® Validation Services Supporting Day 1 Certainty™
- November 9, 2016
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: News
Advantage Credit, Inc. is pleased to announce services that support the new Desktop Underwriter® (DU®) validation services for Day 1 Certainty™. Advantage Credit, Inc. provides Equifax The Work Number® Verification Services for verification of employment and income services and Verification of Deposit and Assets with AccountChek™, an award-winning solution for verifying a borrower’s assets to
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Credit Repair – Not Just Bad for Borrowers
- November 3, 2016
- Posted by: Joel Firestone (G-Net Consulting)
- Category: News
Once a year I try to touch on the evils of credit repair as every year I see more and more the damage it can cause a borrower. But it’s not just the borrower that is negatively affected by credit repair. It can also be damaging to the mortgage broker or lender if they are