{"id":7339,"date":"2016-04-08T00:27:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T04:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=7339"},"modified":"2016-04-08T00:44:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T04:44:56","slug":"low-fico-hike-in-auto-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/low-fico-hike-in-auto-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Low FICO = Hike in Auto Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Credit scoring has a measurable benefit.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"AC537D74-0879-44DB-912A-360D63AE53F4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image18.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">Car loans for FICO 740+ people are actually lower than 5.1%, now.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/129774099\/ken_headshot2_sq_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>kennethlin (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennethlin?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@kennethlin<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennethlin\/status\/474294231679238145?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">6\/4\/14, 1:58 PM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Bad credit hikes auto rates by 65 percent. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i5ZvFU0IG6\">cbsnews.com\/news\/bad-credi\u2026<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSNews\">@CBSNews<\/a> Another reason why credit is important.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"1C644C43-F226-4485-AFB9-2CED0BF1862C\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image22.jpg\" alt=\"image2.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Translation. Your 3.5% down payment and crappy FICO get you a high mortgage rate.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pmt.<\/div>\n<div>n.<\/div>\n<div>R.<\/div>\n<div>Npv<\/div>\n<div>FV<\/div>\n<div>Payment, term, interest rate, net present value, future value. So, the key is that you increase FICO score to reduce R (interest rate)<\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Larry1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Larry1.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Chiang, CEO, Duck9\" width=\"1290\" height=\"1967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Larry1.jpg 1290w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Larry1-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Larry1-672x1024.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\" \/><\/a> Larry Chiang, CEO, Duck9\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang Credit scoring has a measurable benefit. Car loans for FICO 740+ people are actually lower than 5.1%, now. kennethlin (@kennethlin) 6\/4\/14, 1:58 PM Bad credit hikes auto rates by 65 percent. cbsnews.com\/news\/bad-credi\u2026 via @CBSNews Another reason why credit is important. Translation. Your 3.5% down payment and crappy FICO get you a high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-secrets"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}