Quick facts

• Advantage Credit was founded in 1991 by Tim Handley to provide electronic credit reporting services to the mortgage loan and banking industries.
• The company, which is privately held, employs about 100 colleagues and is located in the Pensacola Technology Centre at 15 West Strong Street in Pensacola, Florida.
• Advantage first offered web credit reporting in 2000. Advantage Online™, a fully redesigned web credit reporting system, was released in April 2003.
• Advantage Credit also offers AVM's, flood certifications, CreditXpert® credit score improvement products, mortgage fraud protection, tenant credit reports, tenant screening and more through Advantage Online. New settlement services and business enhancement products are continually added.
• Advantage Online interfaces with Calyx Point, Contour, Genesis and Byte loan origination software and several others. The company also interfaces with RealEC, Ellie Mae's ePASS, Myers Internet and other leading broker service systems.
• The company has over 20,000 mortgage industry professional.
• Advantage Credit has won a spot on the Inc. 500 five consecutive times, most recently in 2003 at #443. The Inc. 500 recognizes the fastest growing privately held companies in America .

• Inc. 500 winner, 2003, #443
• Inc. 500 winner, 2002, #234
• Inc. 500 winner, 2001, #249
• Inc. 500 winner, 2000, #170
• Inc. 500 winner, 1999, #315
• Florida Fast 100 winner, 2000, #19
• Florida Fast 100 winner, 1999, #8
• Equifax's Fastest-Growing Reseller, 1998 & 1999
• Small Industry of the Year Award, Pensacola Chamber of Commerce
• Sam Walton Business Leader of the Year Award, 1999 - (Tim Handley, CEO)