What is a Fee Only Advisor?
We all know that Experian surrendered 143 million US citizens' personal information recently- so you have about a 50/50 chance of having your information compromised. And yes, Experian is giving you a year (really? Only 1 year!?) of free identity protection that should help prevent identity theft. However, you can take action to help further protect yourself- it's called a credit freeze.
So how do you initiate a credit freeze?
Even if this is done, I still recommend getting a copy of your credit report AT LEAST once a year. Every year, you are entitled to a free copy of your credit report from all three agencies, so please do not get suckered into paying for one.
Personally, I pulled one of my free credit reports yesterday, will view another at the end of the year, and the final in June of 2018- just to make sure nothing fishy is going on with my credit file from the Equifax breach. I highly encourage you to implement the same strategy to do your own monitoring of your credit file.
​Unfortunately, in these situations there is only so much you can do, so good luck!