Tips For Cleaning Up Your Credit Report


by Collins Deconle - Date: 2007-02-10 - Word Count: 321 Share This!

Many people have some form of bad credit. If you have negative items on your credit report, you will find it difficult to obtain loans. In today's society you need good credit record to buy a car, purchase a home, and get a credit card and so on.

Credit bureaus, also known as, credit reporting agencies, collect and sell information about consumers. They collect information on you and then allow others to view it when you apply for a loan, credit, apartment, job, and so on.

Credit bureaus get their information about you from all creditors that have done business with you. If you defaulted, the reports are sent to credit reporting agencies for review.

Getting a copy of your credit report is the beginning of repairing bad credit. You need to know what your credit report says about you. So contact the major credit bureaus and get copies of your credit report.

When you receive your credit reports from all of the major credit bureaus, review each report carefully. Derogatory information may appear on your report without your knowledge. If you find incorrect or inaccurate information or anything on your report that is worth disputing, contact the credit bureau to file a dispute.

If you dispute an item, it must be reinvestigated. If the credit bureau cannot verify the truth of an entry within a reasonable period of time, the negative information must be deleted from your report.

When the reinvestigation is complete they must provide you with a free copy of your corrected credit report.

Also, if you request, they must send your corrected credit report to anyone who received your report in the past six months. Job applicants can have an updated copy of their credit report sent to anyone who received a copy during the past two years for employment purposes.

If you have bad credit, don't ignore it, rather find out what you can do to erase negative credit information from your credit report.


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