Improving Your General Financial Literacy
Purchasing a home is just one of the many important financial decisions that you will make. The following sites provide information and tools that are useful for learning about and improving your financial literacy.
- http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/english/index.php
(Offered by Visa) - http://www.frbsf.org/consumer/index.html
(Offered by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco) - http://www.jumpstart.org/
(Offered by the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy)
Credit Bureaus
Contact these credit bureaus to obtain your credit report and to correct errors on your credit report.
- Equifax – http://www.equifax.com
- Experian – http://www.experian.com
- Transunion – http://www.transunion.com
Stopping Mortgage Fraud
- http://www.grefpac.org
- http://www.stopmortgagefraud.com
- Also contact your local FBI office if you believe you have been a victim of mortgage fraud - http://www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/fo.htm
Don't forget to visit the other sections of Safe Borrowing to learn about other types of credit.
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