What Can I Do to Clean Up a Bad Credit Report?
There are two basic ways through which you can clean up negative entries from your file.
It is very important that you learn how, particularly when you plan to apply for some kind of loan in the near future.
The two ways you can get this done are the do-it-yourself and the agency services methods.
Your first effort will be to obtain your report from the credit bureaus, and there's a one-way access point that gives you all three versions of your file which is annualcreditreport dot com.
Your three versions being Experian, Equifax and TransUnion.
Your three files will need some good attention meaning that you will spend quality time reading through all that has been recorded in them, one at a time, while writing down any thing you notice that has to be dealt with.
Negative accounts such as collections, late payments, charge-offs, court judgments and inquiries should be written down on a separate sheet of blank paper so that you will know what you need to work on.
Write dispute letters to each of the bureau that has a negative item listed on their report of you.
You should avoid disputing more than one entry at a time because credit bureaus have a right to ditch your letter on the grounds of frivolity if you make complaints about more than one account on a single letter.
What this means is that you'll be writing one letter for every negative account you want to challenge, and also repeat the same for the other two versions of your file.
Just because you're challenging a bad account with a particular reporting agency does not mean that it will take effect on the other two.
They are very different from one another even though they perform the same function.
Use a restoration kit if you're repairing your file yourself and do not hesitate to consult a repair firm if you must as it will save you a lot of hours you will spend racking your brain on how to clean up your file.
It is very important that you learn how, particularly when you plan to apply for some kind of loan in the near future.
The two ways you can get this done are the do-it-yourself and the agency services methods.
Your first effort will be to obtain your report from the credit bureaus, and there's a one-way access point that gives you all three versions of your file which is annualcreditreport dot com.
Your three versions being Experian, Equifax and TransUnion.
Your three files will need some good attention meaning that you will spend quality time reading through all that has been recorded in them, one at a time, while writing down any thing you notice that has to be dealt with.
Negative accounts such as collections, late payments, charge-offs, court judgments and inquiries should be written down on a separate sheet of blank paper so that you will know what you need to work on.
Write dispute letters to each of the bureau that has a negative item listed on their report of you.
You should avoid disputing more than one entry at a time because credit bureaus have a right to ditch your letter on the grounds of frivolity if you make complaints about more than one account on a single letter.
What this means is that you'll be writing one letter for every negative account you want to challenge, and also repeat the same for the other two versions of your file.
Just because you're challenging a bad account with a particular reporting agency does not mean that it will take effect on the other two.
They are very different from one another even though they perform the same function.
Use a restoration kit if you're repairing your file yourself and do not hesitate to consult a repair firm if you must as it will save you a lot of hours you will spend racking your brain on how to clean up your file.
