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If you want to improve your credit score, one strategy that may help is increasing the amount of credit available to you. That might sound surprising at first, but it makes sense when you understand how credit utilization works. Credit utilization is the amount of revolving credit you are using compared with your total available credit, and it is an important factor in many credit scoring models. In general, lower utilization can be better for your score. Why more available credit can help...

G overnor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill this week that allows some renters to allow their landlords to report their positive rent payments into a credit bureau agency. Assembly Bill 2747 , sponsored by Assemblymember Matt Haney , D-San Francisco, was created to allow renters to see a positive impact on their credit score when they pay their rent on time, he said. “Many renters spend a majority of their income on rent and prioritize their rent payments over all other expenses each month,”...