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Markita Aldridge
Mortgage Consultant, WestStar Mortgage
www.thelendingadvisors.com  
703-497-3936

Markita has been called :The Queen of Mortgage Financing especially after a BK". Since 2002, Markita has been a top-producing loan officer with WestStar Mortgage located in Lake Ridge, VA. She offers her clients expert service in mortgage financing regardless of credit history. Markita's former career as a professional basketball player with the "Washington Mystics of the WNBA" has been her foundation for creating a TEAM atmosphere when dealing with her mortgage clients. She truly believes Together Everyone Accomplishes More! You can visit her website at <a>www.TheLendingAdvisors.com</a> for more information and several FREE mortgage reports that reveal lending secrets other mortgage bankers don't want you to know!

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Host: Who uses credit scores?

Markita Aldridge-Woods: Well, first of all, a credit score is a mathematical model used to determine how likely a bar is to pay back a loan on time and who uses credit score is a wide range. Lenders such as myself use credit scores, as well as credit card companies, but even today now cell phone companies, jobs, even life insurance and car insurance actually use credit scores.

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