From Bad Credit to Better Credit — How Installment Loans Changed Everything Priya doesn't talk about her credit score the way she used to.
Three years ago, that number — 487 — was the thing that defined what she could and couldn't do financially. She couldn't get a car loan. Couldn't get approved for an apartment without a co-signer. Couldn't borrow money in any conventional sense. The score was the result of a period after her divorce: a joint...