The key to repairing your bad credit is the Credit Dispute Letter. You’ve put so much effort (probably a lot of cash too) into eliminating old debts and creating good credit but if you want to rewrite history, credit-wise, you’ve got to convince the credit bureaus to take the eraser to your past. Getting the letter just right requires a lot more than perfect prose. As is so often true with life, success can come from what you don’t say, what you do, how you say it and never forget… timing.
When composing a Credit Dispute Letter remember the old adage: Less it more. Your letter isn’t meant to convince anyone but to point out errors. You are not saying “why” a debt is not listed accurately on your report, but rather “what” is not listed accurately. Start with a simple statement that will explain what you want the the credit bureau to do: On reviewing my credit report, I haved found these discrepancies. Please delete them from my credit report within 30 days as required by law and send me a report of the corrections” – that pretty much sums up everything, doesn’t it. The fact is you don’t need to beg them to remove old credit items, it is there legal responsibility to research anything you say is incorrect and IF they can’t prove it true they must delete it.
Now list virtually everything that could hurt your credit worthiness. It is up to you to decide if you want an item on your report but they probably won’t delete everything, so be aggressive. List the creditor, account number and amount of each item you would like gone. Use no more than three words of explaination: “account never late”, “duplicated account”, or “reported in error” should cover 90% of disputed items. Never say that a credit blemish is from fraud or criminal activity because you are saying that it is reporting true and you will have to prove you aren’t to blame. Say as little as possible.
It is the credit bureaus responsibility to act within 30 days but you want them to know when the clock starts. Send any Credit Dispute Letters certified mail with a signature required. From the moment someone signs for that letter they have 30 days to contact the reported creditors and get a written verification of the bad credit items. Time is on your side and you want the bureaus to know that.
By: Mitchell Torek
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The Perfect Credit Dispute Letter
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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
