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Credit Repair - How To Deal With A Credit Bureau
Having good credit is an essential tool in today's economy - it
allows you to have a credit card, to obtain car and house loans,
and many other conveniences. While you can live without good
credit, a bad credit rating will certainly affect you negatively
throughout your life. The key to your credit rating lies with a
credit bureau. There are a handful of credit bureaus in North
America that handle all reports - positive and negative - from
creditors to create a credit report specific to you. If you have
a poor credit history, you must take steps to engage in credit
repair, and one of the first and most essential tools is to
learn how to effectively deal with your credit bureau.
Credit repair begins with determining which credit bureau holds
your file. To do this simply look at any rejection letter from a
credit application - the letter, in refusing you credit, will
indicate which bureau proved the rating. The next step is to
obtain your credit history. Keep in mind that legally it is
always free to obtain your credit history if you have recently
been denied credit, although many organizations will imply that
it is not. The only time you should pay money for a credit
report is if you want to receive it instantly, in which case
credit bureaus will provide an instant online report for a fee.
When dealing with a credit bureau, understand that they are in
the business of collection and selling information. For this
reason, it is in your interest to never provide them with any
information that is not legally necessary. Legally, you only
need to provide a credit bureau with your name, social security
number and legal address in order to obtain your credit report.
The bureaus may request a copy of your social security card, and
- if the address they have on file is different from your
current one - a copy of something proving your address. Although
they may ask for a driver's license to prove your address, send
them a copy of a bill showing your address. The reason you want
to be cautious when dealing with credit bureaus is that they own
many collection agencies, and if you have a credit problem you
want to give them as little information as possible with which
to harass you with.
Once you have received the report, examine it closely for any
errors. If anything is in question, send a written request for
an investigation to the credit bureau. Legally, the onus is on
the credit bureau to document anything on your credit report -
if they cannot document it within 30 days, it must be removed.
This is the basic strategy of many credit repair companies that
charge exorbitant fees: challenge everything negative. In many
cases if the negative item is more than a few years old it will
be difficult to verify and the item will be removed.
By learning to properly deal with a credit bureau you can engage
in effective credit repair that other companies change high fees
for. By educating yourself as to the legal obligations of the
credit bureau, you can, in many cases, repair your own credit
quickly and effectively.
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Written by: Brandon C. Hall
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