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How do I find out what my credit score is?

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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: How do I find out my credit score?

Markita Aldridge-Woods: Well, you actually can go to two places. You can go to annualcreditreport.

com, which is a free site that will allow you to download your credit report every year or you could go to the credit bureaus and you have three of those credit bureaus, that s Experian, Equifax, and Trans Union. So, even though we say credit scores, there re actually three different scores.

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