So there you sit. You have great plans for a great new business; a sure-fire winner. But there’s a problem. You’re pretty sure your personal credit is less than perfect. Well, actually you know it’s in the dumpster. End of dream? No, start of a plan to get this ship out of dry dock.
Here’s what you have to do:
Find out what your credit score is before you approach any financial institution about a loan. Maybe it won’t be as bad as you think, but you won’t know unless you check it out. That means getting your report from all three of the major credit-reporting bureaus: Equifax, Experian or TransUnion. This way you’ll find out exactly where you stand.
There’s another benefit here as well. It’s possible your report may contain errors: a late payment, for example, you know you made on time. Or a claim of a missed payment, when you have the canceled check to prove it was paid. Errors do occur, and if you find any, now is the time to get them corrected, before you go out looking for business funding.
But let’s say that after checking your credit report, you determine that it’s correct, and yes, […]

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The “Real Deal” is broke.Former Heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield is playing the real life game of Deal Or No Deal. It has been reported that his $10 million estate in suburban Atlanta is under foreclosure, the mother of one of his children is sued for unpaid child support. It appears that he has coughed up her cash. It has been reported that a Utah consulting company has gone to court claiming the boxer failed to pay back more than a half million dollars for landscaping. Just one more high profile athlete having to scale back his lifestyle to the level to which you have I have been accustomed. Why is it that athletes who seem to have everything are often completely unable to control anything related to finances?We all played our violins to death when we heard of Latrell Sprewell’s financial troubles. On Halloween 2004, Sprewell, who was in the final season of a $62-million five-year contract with the New York Knicks, said he was insulted by the Minnesota Timberwolve’s offer of a contract extension that was reportedly worth between $27 million and $30 million for three seasons. Sprewell stated, “I’ve got my family to feed.” That quote become a […]

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