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Credit Repair – Reading Your Credit Reports Accurately
If you get annual general check ups to assess your health, you need to have a copy of your credit report to find out what is the real score when it comes to your finances. A copy of your credit report will tell you if you need to go through credit repair or not. If everything looks like hieroglyphics, that’s fine. This article will help you understand your credit report better.
You will have to obtain credit reports from the three prominent credit bureaus – Experian, TransUnion and Equifax. Every year, you will be able to receive a free complementary copy of your credit reports from each of the three bureaus. You will need to pay a small amount when requesting for a second copy or your credit score.
Make sure that you request for the copies yourself. These credit bureaus prepare credit reports differently. They tend to censor themselves from using any technical terms and other jargons that may only be comprehensible to people who are involved in the business.
They write credit reports that can easily be understood by average consumers.
Understanding Credit Bureau Disputes in Credit Repair
Having identified the fact that you do need to exercise some sort of credit repair is the first step in the process of sorting out your credit rating at the relevant credit bureau or bureaus. There have been instances where a negative entry has been made against somebody’s name, purely by error and this is what you have to be aware of when checking your credit history and standing. If you are aware of any defaults or bad credit habits on your part, then the process will most likely be somewhat different than sorting out an error on the side of the bureaus.
If you have discovered that the bureaus have made a mistake then you should declare a dispute with the bureau by means of a written communication, remembering to keep copies of all your correspondence. Once the error has been highlighted and corrected the issue of your credit repair should be sorted out.
This may be a little more complicated than laid out here, purely because you will be dealing with a typically large organization, as well as with individuals that are, at times, quite overworked. Perhaps the traits of persistence and patience will serve you well here, but don’t stop until the errors have been sorted out.