The Ultimate Credit Handbook: How to Double Your Credit, Cut Your Debt, and Have a Lifetime of Great Credit

by Gerri Detweiler

Detweiler, a former director of Bankcard Holders of America, draws on her years of expertise in counseling consumers with credit problems to write the definitive handbook on how to have more credit, get out of debt, and live a lifetime of financial stability and prosperity.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452277124
• ISBN13: 9780452277120
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

This book is extremely well written!

This book truely answered all of my questions about credit and then went into suggestions that I could understand and implement. My credit is now perfect with a credit score of over 750. You will learn that scores over 700 are considered "A" credit. You will also see the importance of paying off high interest debt first. It sounds so simple but many people, like myself, were paying more on our mortgage while still carrying a credit card balance. This book has changed my family into knowledgable consumers. We are now debt free and I would strongly recommend it to anyone- and no, I don't know the author.

Timeless credit tips I have used to save money /make money

These credit tips were the basis for my company, United College Marketing Services.This book was awesome and I used it as the foundation for Credit Strategies Seminars educating over 25mm young adults. It contains great tips on getting and keeping good credit for yourself. I truly encourage everyone who want to have awesome credit to get this book. People that I have referred this book to rave about it as well. Libraries have multiple copies and people tell me that they are almost always checked out. My first copy of Ultimate Credit Handbook is very worn and close to falling apart...I met Gerri back in 1988 at an International Credit Industry conference. I have never met a more giving person. Her career has been dedicated selflessly to helping consumers.Buy this book because if you don't, you will lose out on thousands of dollars in interest fees.

The most useful book in credit management I have ever read!

The book provides a lot of useful information about credit management, espacially for those people who have never had any credit. College students are, probably, the largest part of population bearing this characteristic. That is why I, being a college student myself, would like to highly recommend this book to everyone, especially students, as the most educative and useful in-real-life read ever! Gerri Detweiler emphasizes great strategies and techniques of dealing with credit card companies and making sure that your credit is and always remains in top shape!

Must reading for every "card-carrying" American!

Credit expert Gerri Detweiler explains how to get and keep the lowest cost credit -- and how to battle bank foul-ups. If you have credit problems now, or have had some in the past, this book could be a financial lifesaver. Learn to get your credit profile in shape, find the best card deals, and implement a lifetime strategy for great credit.

Sun Times says it is the best book for credit curious

Explains how to clean up a credit report. But it goes beyond just fixing up your record to cover rebuilding your credit, getting cheaper and lower rate credit cards and learning how to live within your means.