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Of course you can! Many of our readers, and even yours truly has cleared up a few blemishes on their reports.

our credit score is the most important three-digit number in your life. Improving your credit can lead to savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars over the life of a mortgage. In addition, a better credit profile can help you with credit card rates, auto loans, and help you get that job you wanted.

Sometimes, life can get a little out of hand and you may fall behind in bills, run up a lot of debt or make other mistakes that can ruin your credit score. A bad credit report will raise your interest rates and make it even more difficult to catch up. That is where we come in.

We offer credit and financial consulting and work to improve your overall credit profile, so you can recover and save thousands to hundreds of thousands on your mortgage, credit cards and more..

What We Do

We raise credit scores by working with you, your creditors and the credit bureaus to remove negative items from your credit report and add positives.

We Credit Repair Experts stands out from the rest because we work with you to give you the education you need to maintain healthy credit.

We are always available to answer any questions that you may have. Whether you are looking for a home loan, refinance, auto loan, new job, or just want a fresh start, Credit Repair Experts will help reach your end goal through credit education, guidance, and credit repair.

Rank questionable negative items

How to identify items, both positive and negative on your credit report. Now you have this list, you should rank each item according to the amount of damage they are doing to your overall credit picture. We Rank the most damaging information first, followed by the next most damaging information, followed by those items which are neutral.

We do this for each credit report, as remember, they may not all have the same information on them. They may even have duplicate information. If this is the case, we will need to write to each credit agency individually for each duplicate item.

The items here are listed in order of descending importance with the first item being the "most damaging" to your credit.

Bankruptcy
Foreclosure
Repossession
Loan Default
Court Judgments
Collections
Past due payments
Late Payments
Credit Rejections
Credit Inquiries

Also, if your creditor has NOT notified you of negative information they have recently placed on your credit report, they are currently in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. We can use this to pressure the original creditor to remove the listing by reminding them they are in violation of the FCRA by not notifying you.

Requesting Corrections and Disputing Your Credit

What should you challenge?

Everything, and you should always shoot for a complete deletion. Don't bother challenging the information within a collection listing, charge-off, court record, repossession, foreclosure, or settled account. As the basic nature of these listings is negative, changing the information within the listing will yield no improvement.

Severely negative listings, such as these, must be disputed on the basis of complete deletion or not be disputed at all.

What items are the toughest to get off your report?

You will have the toughest time getting bankruptcies and foreclosures off of your credit report as these things are so easy for the credit bureaus to verify. In the case of a bankruptcy, you most likely will have a few trade lines saying "included in Bankruptcy".

If you want to challenge your bankruptcy, you need to clear off all credit lines mentioning a BK FIRST.

We challenge each and every one of his collections, as well as his credit card late payment. He wrote a letter that:

listed each of his negative listings by name, collection agency and amount of the delinquency
Under each of the list accounts, he said he was disputing the accuracy.
Also included your Name, SSN, Address, and a copy of your driver's license.
Send your letters via Express Mail, which gives him a receipt for the mailing, and guarantees delivery. Total expense for Express Mail: $16.

We Make sure you send everything registered or certified mail.

This is important, as you must be able to tell when letters were sent and received. It gives you some leverage with the CRAs if they don't respond in the time frame required by law.

Document Your Credit Repair Efforts

As soon as we have ordered your credit reports and photocopied your order letters and checks, you must create a precise organizational system to track your correspondences with the credit bureaus and your creditors. Why is this necessary? Unfortunately, credit items you have worked so hard to remove mysteriously reappear.

If this happens, it is usually easy to have the items deleted permanently if you show your complete records on the first removal. Why take a chance? As you proceed through these steps, keep copies and records of all correspondence you send and receive.

Copies of all correspondence are a must, as well as notes on all telephone conversations! Also, if you should encounter any special difficulty and would like help in repairing your credit, you will need these records to proceed.

Every time you have a telephone conversation with a creditor, you must document the conversation by recording the name of the person to whom you spoke, his or her position, the date and time of the conversation, what was said in the conversation, and what was agreed upon.

Record when you sent the letters, and put your mail receipts and copies of this letters in a safe place.

Wait for the credit bureau to finishing investigating

Once the credit reporting agency has received your dispute letter, they are obligated to investigate. This obligation is not contingent upon you having been denied credit. According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1997 (see Attachment 3), the credit bureaus must take the following steps:

The credit reporting agencies must resolve consumers' disputes within 30 days limit
In response to consumers' complaints that documentation in support of their disputes was disregarded, the credit bureaus have to consider and transmit to the furnisher all relevant evidence submitted by the consumer the first time.
Consumers will receive written notice of the results of the investigation within five days of its completion, including a copy of the amended credit file if it changed based on the dispute.
Once information is deleted from a credit file, the credit bureaus can not reinsert it unless the entity supplying the information certifies that the item is complete and accurate and the credit bureau notifies the consumer within five days.

The Federal Trade Commission says that inaccurate credit reports are the number-one source of consumer complaints, and that it is quite common for problems to take six or more months to be resolved. All of the big-three agencies are working on making sure that all disputes are handled within 30 days.

If the new investigation reveals an error, you may ask that a corrected version of the report be sent to anyone who received your report within the past six months.

Job applicants can have corrected reports sent to anyone who received a report for employment purposes during the past two years. However, this is unlikely to repair any damage done when your credit report was first pulled, so don't waste your time or energy on this approach.

Evaluate the results of your repair efforts.

You did save the original credit report your ordered, did't you? And each item you challenged? Good, you will need them to evaluate how well you did. It's all part of Step 5 above, documenting your efforts.

When you get your credit report back from the credit bureaus, they will summarize what changed on your credit report due to your challenges. You can compare this list to your own notes or just to the previous credit report.

Specialized techniques:

Depending on the type of listing, you may also want to try these separate techniques:

Collections - you should always try to use the debt validation technique on collections. This should be in addition to your credit repair efforts with the credit bureaus.
Charge-offs. Try disputing the information within the listing, like the date the account was opened, the high balance, the amount owed, etc. If any of the information is incorrect, you have a good chance of getting the whole thing deleted off of your report.
Judgments. If you were never served for a judgment, you may have a chance of getting it vacated (voided), or there may be other technicalities that you can use. Check out our new section on how to do this.

The results of each item will have been resolved in one of five different ways:

If the listing is not mentioned in the results list, you must have forgotten to include it, or your request was not sufficiently clear. You will need to dispute the item again in your next dispute letter. The bureaus are legally obligated to respond in writing within 30 days, so if they don't, it is highly unlike they are ignoring you.
The disputed item was investigated but verified.If you don't get the item removed, most likely, the credit bureaus will have just given you a cryptic reason as to why like item verified .The creditor may have responded to the credit bureau's request for re-verification.
They may have simply said that the listing was correct, and in this case, the bureau will take their word for it. Now it is up to you to prove to the bureau that the item is not correct.
The law required that the bureaus accept any proof you may submit, as well as to pass any documentation you provide on to your creditor for consideration, so be sure to send any documentation you can, if you didn't do it the first time.
You could also try disputing the listing again at a future time. Who knows, you may get lucky, and a different employee of the creditor may not be able to verify the item.
The disputed listing was investigated as to the correctness of the information within the listing (such as late pay notations) and the listing was found to be inaccurate or unverifiable. Remember, if the creditor doesn't respond to the bureau at all, this is the same as the listing being unverifiable. In this case, the negative listing will now show up as a positive listing, or it will be deleted from your report all together. This is the best possible outcome.

If you are not getting the desired results from the credit bureaus Credit bureau disputes are not handled by computers, but by people, so the possibility that your claims was misunderstood, overlooked or mishandled is good. Fixing your credit takes time, and there is nothing you can do to expedite the process. However, you can always resubmit your claims.

Tips for resubmitting your credit dispute

Be persistent! Become more insistent, but not more threatening, with each dispute. As you submit one dispute after another, it may become increasingly difficult to get the checker to initiate an investigation.Your first one or two disputes should be friendly and polite.

Just like any other consumer, you can become frustrated and threatening as time passes. You may threaten to hire an attorney, you may threaten to complain to the FTC and your state's attorney general, etc. But don't overdo it.

Be creative - Create and utilize other techniques that help further the idea that the dispute letter is from a truly wronged and disadvantaged consumer. The checker is only interested in investigating disputes that truly are erroneous and damaging.

Again, because the agencies are flooded with requests, they tend to give priority to those that seem most urgent.

Do not bombard the credit bureaus with disputes (about the same listings, that is) - Do not bombard the credit bureaus with disputes. Sending one dispute right after another is wasteful and counterproductive.

You may wind up alienating the credit agency so that they hold up your progress. (Remember, they cannot legally stop you from restoring accurate information but the people who run the agencies, like anyone else, probably do not respond well to harassment.)

Also remember, that credit repair is a time-consuming operation requiring great patience. The rule of thumb is to wait 60 days between disputes of the same listing.

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