Do Late Payments Impact Your Credit Score?

Being late sucks. If you're late to the movie, you have to find your seat in the dark. If you're late to the party, all the best appetizers are gone. And if you're late with a payment to a creditor, well, you can just about kiss your credit goodbye. Late payments are a fact of life. Most of us have done it for a variety of perfectly legitimate reasons. Some people miss payments because they got laid off, or because of an emergency medical situation, or because they simply forgot. The problem is that payment history makes up roughly 35% of your total credit score. So late payments have a massive impact. But late payments can be removed. Tune into my podcast, where I walk you through the steps to master the process of removing late payments from your credit report.