Intuit Credit Karma
We all like free, so enter Credit Karma, a site that gives you your credit score <strong>free of charge</strong> and it takes a whole two minutes or so to sign up, see your score, and get a letter grade in various categories, including the following...
Kiplinger interviews Ken Lin, chief executive of Credit Karma, on what consumers need to know about credit cards now.
"Bad credit car loan shoppers looking for a good deal need look no further than the Credit Karma web site which provides registered users with a free credit score."
Credit Karma is the only <strong>free service</strong> of the bunch and you can pull every 24 hours plus one minute.
Like some other companies out there, Credit Karma provides you with credit score for free, but the extras help it to stand out a little more.
Or you can sign up for free credit scores from sites such as Quizzle, Credit.com and Credit Karma, which use the actual information on file about you with the credit bureaus.
If you're after free non-FICO scores, you may visit Credit Karma or Quizzle.com, where the scores they offer are proprietary.
According to Credit Karma's CEO, Ken Lin, 2009 has been a momentous year for credit issues and I have to agree with him. Suddenly, frugality became cool, overspending was out, and consumers put more emphasis on savings and paying down their outstanding debt.
Ken Lin, CEO of CreditKarma.com, talks about how to handle your credit cards, especially now that companies are hiking interest rates, cutting credit lines and imposing new fees.
Credit Karma, a site that looks to help consumers understand, track, and improve their credit scores, has raised a $2.5 million Series A funding round.