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When self-employment hurts your creditworthiness despite success

I have great credit but I am self-employed and keep getting denied for mortgages and I feel like I am being punished for building something instead of working for someone else.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Traditional measures of financial reliability can penalize non-traditional but successful paths, creating frustration about conformity versus independence.

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