{"id":1364,"date":"2013-03-12T12:13:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T16:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myfinancialfocus.net\/mainsite\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2025-08-24T06:38:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T10:38:51","slug":"credit-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myfinancialfocus.net\/mainsite\/index.php\/credit-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are again here at tax time and it is a great time to pull your credit report and see what is out there. \u00a0Most of us are often too busy with life to really take the time to see what is going on with our information. \u00a0Things could have been posted incorrectly to you and you could see if someone is using your identity. \u00a0If you never look, you never know.<\/p>\n<p>Take the time today to pull your credit report &#8211; not your score. \u00a0You can have your report written to a PDF and stored, securely, on your computer to review and\/or print.<\/p>\n<p>It is wise to have your spouse review their report as well.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know you can do it for free? \u00a0While you are allowed to obtain your credit report once a year (once each from all three bureaus), in some states you can get it more than once and still for free! \u00a0What is your excuse now?<\/p>\n<p>Where can you go to get it for free &#8211; only one place &#8211; and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annualcreditreport.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here to go there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What have you found from your credit report &#8211; this time and even in the past?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are again here at tax time and it is a great time to pull your credit report and see what is out there. \u00a0Most of us are often too busy with life to really take the time to see what is going on with our information. \u00a0Things could have been posted incorrectly to you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-debt","category-personal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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