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"Credit Repair" Articles
 

  • Get Your Credit Score Before Buying a Car - Most people acknowledge that maintenance and repair costs are a necessary compromise for the independence they gain from owning a car. But there is one important maintenance task everyone should undertake before buying a car; repairing their credit report.
  • Piggybacking and Repairing Your Credit - The practice of piggybacking has been around for years, and many consumers have used it to boost their credit scores. In order for a consumer with bad credit to boost their score, a person with good credit would authorize the bad-credit individual on one or more of their credit lines which artificially boosted the lower credit score and making it appear that the person actually had several positive credit accounts. Good Intentions of Piggybacking Credit It may sound a little shady, but the intentions of piggybacking are often good such as a parent helping one of their children to begin establishing good credit or a spouse helping to boost their partner's score.
  • Bad Credit... So What? - Everything can be fixed. All problems have a solution and in many cases more than one. Bad credit is not the exception and can be improved dramatically, provided you take immediate action and get cracking to repair your credit. There is more than one way to repair it, as we shall see. How Can We Repair Bad Credit? There are two stages to bad credit repair.
  • The TransUnion Settlement: A Tool for Repairing Credit - The TransUnion settlement is being offered to an estimated 150 million consumers. Want to know if you're one of them? Well, it's a reasonably safe bet you are. You see, the settlement is being offered to anyone who had an open line of credit anytime from 1987 to May of 2008. Open lines of credit can include student loans, credit cars, auto loans, mortgages - pretty much anything you may have purchased on a credit account or line of credit. So you can see that's just about anybody over the age of 18 from the last twenty years.
  • Credit Reporting - Learn the Facts - A frequent concern of individuals is "how long will a negative listing remain on my credit report?" The answer is seven years.
  • Credit Repair Company - Choose the Right One - A lot of credit repair companies say they can fix any credit report. All the person has to do is hire the company and their credit problems are fixed. Is this true? Unfortunately no, it's not. There are fraudulent credit repair companies that prey on people with bad credit. It is said that fraudulent companies have taken over 50 million dollars from the consumers.
  • Improve Your Credit Score – Where to start - There are several different factors that go into your credit score and you want to improve your credit score but are unsure of where to start. Since your credit score is based on your credit report, this is where you should start. You need to review your credit report to make sure information is correct and there aren’t any inaccuracies. Fixing errors is one starting point to improve a credit score. As you review your credit report, you should make a list of items you would like to dispute. The first step is getting a copy of your credit reports. You have three different reports and you are entitled to one free copy per year.
  • Credit Cards for People with Bad Credit - We live in a world where people expect immediate gratification for their efforts. In fact, many feel entitled to life’s rewards even when they have done nothing to merit them. This may be why so many people find themselves in a bad credit situation. They have taken a system that was meant to make our lives easier and turned it into a way of life.
  • Selecting a Law Firm to Assist with Credit Repair - The credit reporting agencies are required by federal law to remove inaccurate information from your credit reports free of charge. However, nowhere in the law does it say they have to make it easy for you.
  • Credit Report Repair - Disputing negative credit information usually cannot be done all at once. It is better to challenge the most severe items immediately and then move onto less severe items. Bad credit items impact your score differently depending on their severity. Recent judgments and collections are often the most damaging.
  • Remove Charge Offs - When you get a charge off on your credit report it will negatively impact your credit score. This comes about when an account becomes delinquent and no payment is made for 6 months. In order to remove charge offs from your credit report you must dispute the listing with the credit bureaus. This is done by sending a credit repair letter to the credit bureaus. In the credit repair letter you need to include the reason the charge off should be deleted. Reasons often include: the account being paid, never paid laid or it's not your account.
  • How and Why Increasing Your Credit Limits Rebuilds Bad Credit - I hate credit cards with small credit limits. Not because I'm a hater, but because a small credit limit can wreak havoc on your credit scores.
  • 8 Consumer Credit System Myths - Misinformation and half-truths abound in discussions about credit reporting and scoring. People have so many different ideas about what is true when it comes to dealing with their credit that regardless of the question you ask, you are liable to get a wide variety of conflicting information. At the end of the day, all this ignorance about the credit system does nothing but help the lenders and other financial institutions who use your credit information. If people simply knew a little more about their credit, they would be able to take steps to improve their credit.
  • Selecting the Right Credit Repair Company - Selecting a credit repair company to help you improve your credit score is a big decision. A typical credit repair service will cost you a few hundred dollars and will take up to a year to complete their service. Choosing the wrong credit repair company can end up wasting money and perhaps more importantly, your time. Choosing the right credit repair company, however, may be one of the best things you can possibly do for your financial future. What do you need a credit repair company to do for you? A good place to start when determining which credit repair company is best for you is to figure out what needs to be done to improve your credit.
  • The Credit Repair Organizations Act - Since the Credit Repair Organizations Act, credit repair companies have certain obligations they need to meet and certain information they need to provide. Otherwise, the law establishes severe sanctions in the event of non compliance. The law has several protections for you as a customer and it is wise to know them beforehand even though they are required to disclose them to you. What Credit Repair Organizations Can Not Do: They cannot make false claims about what they offer. This constitutes false advertising and is severely sanctioned. Moreover, in certain situations companies could be prosecuted and charged for fraud. Those companies who claim to provide you with a new identity or other illegal actions definitely fall into this category.
  • Good And Bad Deals In Credit Cards - More of Wayne's Story Wayne, who you met in Chapter 6, after reviewing all of the possible credit card types and options, has decided that he wants to get both a Visa and a Master Card. That's a good start. But now what? The terminology on the applications is very confusing.
  • The Truth About Credit Repair Services - Credit repair services advertisements are everywhere you look making amazing claims about how they can fix your credit and recover your ability to get finance. However, most of these claims are nothing but false advertising and many of these services are nothing but scams. Learn how to recognize legit companies and how to protect yourself.
  • Whether or Not You Believe Credit Repair Works, You are Correct - There are few topics as polarizing as credit repair. Depending on who you talk to, credit repair is usually thought of as impossible, illegal, something you can only do yourself, or something you need professional help to perform. Rarely do you find someone with a perspective on credit repair that is not at the far end of one of these extremes. The fascinating thing is that in most cases, whatever people believe to be true will be true for them. The poster on the Yahoo! Answers forum who states that "there is NO SUCH thing as Credit Repair....it's a scam...." will never realize any benefits from repairing their own credit. By believing that credit repair is impossible, they are fulfilling their own prophecy by ignoring their rights to dispute their own credit. By not believing it can be done, they are proving their own point.
  • Answering Some Common Questions About Credit Repair - Credit repair is one of those topics that most people are not familiar with and many of those that think they are, do not have a correct understanding of what credit repair...
  • Credit Score: Protect Yourself From Identity Theft and Fraud - There are many reasons why you should fear identity theft and credit fraud.
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