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Contacting your lender quickly can minimize damage to your credit scores while helping you qualify for a greater range of assistance options.

While not every young adult is in the financial position to co-sign the loan application for a friend, this can be another way to damage a credit score and a friendship if the friend misses payments.

If not, your credit standing and your credit score will be severely damaged for quite a while.

While a foreclosure can damage your credit score and your potential to get a loan in the future, it's not the end of the world, and your credit score can work its way back up if you follow this advice.

While it is wiser to check a consumer credit score prior to applying for a loan, consumers still have the opportunity and the data to be more effective about repairing damaged credit and improving their credit scores enough to qualify for financing in the future.

Short sales and foreclosures allow borrowers to walk away from their mortgage payments, while severely damaging their credit scores.

While it typically won't be as damaging to your score as a bankruptcy, it will still be significant and this will stay on your credit history for seven years.

So, while the median credit score is over 700, there are a lot of people who have been forced into filing bankruptcy, severely damaging their credit score.

While you need to be aware that there are some things - like a bankruptcy or foreclosure — that can damage your credit score for years, doing your best to pay your regular bills can help bring that number up.

While a 30 - day delinquency won't tank a credit score, if it's longer than that, the damage is more serious — at which point, you'd better run.

While a debtor may be concerned that bankruptcy will wreak havoc on their credit score, albeit temporarily, the paths the debtor took up until bankruptcy may have already done enough damage.

One missed payment can damage your credit significantly, while fidelity in this area helps to strengthen your scores.

I know this is a site started by a debt kid who tried to get rid of debt while avoid bankruptcy and fatal damage his credit score.

While the damage might be relatively minimal after only two missed payments, your credit score may fall as much as 125 points after three.

While a hard check usually has a low impact on your credit score overall, multiple hard checks add up to greater damage, and some lenders won't consider your application if you've got too many in the past six or 12 months.

While damage estimates are difficult, FICO — creator of the most commonly used scoring model — leaves no doubt about its importance: Among the FICO score's components, credit utilization falls into the «amounts owed» category, which accounts for 30 percent of that score.

While the total amount of credit available to cardholders with excellent credit has increased substantially over the past year, it's become less available to cardholders with damaged scores.

Here's how card churning can affect your credit rating, and how you can avoid score damage while racking up rewards.