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Fix Credit Report

Submitted by on May 8, 2010 – 7:09 amNo Replies


If you want to fix your credit score, you might consider start searching for a really good credit repair software that will take you within your credit report. What does this mean to you? How do you get inside of a credit report?

 

First of all have you see a credit report lately? Given, they are much better than in the past, but they’re still not very consumer friendly. My Transunion credit report that I pulled recently has so much information crammed into small areas, you literally need some serious coffee  a conscious mind set before sitting down with it. 

 

Experian has done much better than in the past. Their FICO scoring model is easier to read, but in many cases the report is twenty pages plus. The way they fold and collate the report is confusing. Page two jumps to page 8 and I finally figured out that it can’t be printed all at the same time.

 

Equifax is similar to Transunion. Their credit report is a mish-mosh  mind boggling set of jumbled characters and codes, making it impossible for a overview . If you spend any time at all with these credit reports, you’ll begin to understand why it is so difficult to maneuver. Do you have any idea why this is? Maybe this is not a mistake after all.

 

The Fair Credit Reporting Act, FCRA, was instituted to protect consumers against unjust credit practices. Namely, from reporting errors that are considerable among credit reports. The FCRA allows for consumers to dispute errors in their credit file if they are erroneous not reflected as correct . 

 

That being said, there is a letter writing dispute opportunity  crucial for this to happen, but the key is that the credit reporting agencies have thirty days to verify the remark is being reported as proper. They do this by contacting the lender of the account in question and requesting that they check the credit history and make any corrections necessary.

 

Do you think that if credit reports were simple to read, it would incite a triage of dispute letters? Do you think that if consumers knew what the codes really meant they would immediately seize what is right or wrong in their credit file?

 

Now that you understand this , if credit reports were easy to read and you could easily understand what you have, do you think the credit reporting agencies would suffer an onslaught of dispute letters costing them millions of dollars in work related verifications? Remember, they have 30 days to complete any investigation you request.

 

This is the single most crucial reason I believe consumers should use a credit repair software. After all, who knows how to go to the fundamentals of a credit report? Do you know all the codes and the terms they use to make this a difficult process ? Do you know where to send a credit dispute letter? Do you know how to write an effective and persuasive letter requesting account validations?

 

The result is probably not because if you know all this codes, you are not spending adequate time living. Remember, credit reporting agencies are in business to serve lenders. They sell consumer information and have huge data files on us -what they spend, how much and where we like to shop . Do you really believe they are going to make it easy for you or is their allegiance to their customer or to the credit card companies?

 Keep in mind that reporting errors cost you money. Every month these higher interest rates dig a little deeper into your pocket.  .

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