Let’s say you want to do consumer credit repair. Lenders will be looking at five areas. Those factors all start with C: character, capacity, capital, collateral and conditions.
Character
Your financial trustworthiness is character. It’s great if a lender knows you or your family personally. This is more often determined by your credit score. Whether you’ve made payments on time can play a big part here.
Your credit report will show 30, 60 and 90 day delinquencies. Credit card companies are often the most aggressive about reporting. As you could guess, negative entries count against your credit score. You’ll want your report to show all accounts in good standing for working to repair consumer credit.
Capacity
Capacity is your cash flow. You have to have enough money to handle the debt you’re asking for. They look at your income and expenses for each month. Lenders rightfully want to make sure you have enough money to make the payments.
Capital
Capital shows that you know how to manage money long term. It’s a look at your net worth. Lenders don’t want to give money to people who need it. They want to lend to people who have shown to be able to use it wisely to build up more assets. That’s a better lending risk for them.
Collateral
Collateral secures the debt. Some loans like mortgages are backed by the promise to return property if the loan is defaulted on. If there’s something to get back, there’s less risk to the lender. The last thing the lender wants is to have to deal with a returned house or car but it’s still less risk if there’s that incentive to stay current.
Conditions
The conditions are market and economic conditions outside your control. With the recent economic recession, lending guidelines have become more strict.
This also applies down to your local lender. If a banker is having a bad day or maybe you look at him funny, that could affect whether you’re approved or not.
To repair consumer credit, focus on the five Cs: character, capacity, capital, collateral and conditions.
By: Tiffani G Peterson
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Consumer Credit Repair – The 5 C’s
March 7th, 2010Credit Repair
March 4th, 2010
There are no rules of erasing any information so far. But you can do any corrections if is necessary. You cannot terminate any negative information but the incorrect information can be erased from your credit. Then in the place the accurate information would be included and the report would be shown in your credit for seven years.
You can take the credit repair services if you need. There are credit repair services that are paid for their tasks. There are payment systems for them. But they can not take payment unless the fix your credit problems. Laws have also provided for such service. There are federal laws for credit repair services to aware you about your legal rights. They give you a contract which is written in details and that you can cancel if you want to with in three days. It is applicable for the non-profit services not for the non-profit organizations.
You can get the credit repair done through email service. You can also send and get emails for credit services. But be cautious about the emails because they sometimes might be fraud. You might get emails from the organizations that are fake and want to have their own profit.
If needed correction can be done in your credit report. You can also correct the mistakes yourself in your credit report. You can ask for a free copy of your credit report. By the state law you are allotted to get one free copy a year. Otherwise there is a small fee for the service. But it doesn’t cost anything if you ask question or if you have any queries. Thus you can do corrections, get copy of your own after corrections, ask questions and get your queries for free.
Explanation of any misdeed which is out of law can be added to your credit. If you want you can also add any explanation in your report. There are cases like when you are not able to pay your bills on time for a loss of job or a sudden illness or if you have any queries or any disputes about the system you can add an explanation in short in your file to the credit bureau.
There is no rule of opening a second credit file. There are many fraud companies who are in sake for opening a second credit file. In order to create a new credit file few fraud companies sometimes might come up to you provide different tax identification or various security numbers. It is an illegal task n it is called “file segregation”.
If you have credit problems you can go for counseling. You can get a good consult from the Consumer Credit Counseling Service (CCCS) to get a good credit report in your record. You can also get good advices from CCCS for your payment plans to your creditors if you fail to do so properly in some instance. You can get these services done in a very low cost or even at times free of cost.
By: George Burns
