Posts Tagged Blemishes
Here’s How To Get Credit Bureau To Erase Negative Info
Is bad credit ruining your life? Have you been denied credit because of negative information on your credit report? Do you want to learn how to make a good credit report instantly? If you answered yes to the above questions, you’re in the right place.
Having a bad credit record will make your life difficult in many situations. Nothing can slow you down faster financially than negative information contained in a credit bureau file. Sometimes, the information is true, other times it is deceiving or even totally wrong. What can you do if you believe that you have been turned down for credit because of inaccurate or outdated information?
There are some steps that you can take, to get rid of blemishes on your report. Your first step should be to get your credit reports from the three major credit bureaus. You can get a free copy of your report one time a year, and you can also obtain one at no charge if you have been denied credit within the past 60 days.
Once you have obtained your report, examine it carefully. Make sure that all information is being reported correctly. If you find any incorrect information in your report, you can dispute it with the credit bureau.
Send a letter to the credit bureau explaining your dispute. When filing a dispute, tell the credit bureau what information you believe is incorrect and the reason why. Include any documentation that would help support your claim.
By law the credit bureaus are required to delete negative items from credit reports whenever a particular item reaches a certain age. Also, inaccuarate or unverifiable information must be deleted from credit files.
If there are accounts on your report that need to be settled, you can negotiate with the creditors. Be sure to have the creditor sign and date the settlement proposal and return it to you, before you pay them.
Once you have finished eliminating negatives from credit report, and have a clean clear credit report, it’s time to add positive information on your report.
A secured credit card can help you build good credit. It looks and works like any other major credit card. Secured Visa and Mastercard are issued against your depositing cash in a financial institution. That deposit serves as a collateral for the credit card. If you maintain a good account, your excellent credit rating will be recorded on your report.
Another effective way to add positive credit information to your credit file is to take out a small installment loan from a bank and pay it back promptly.
You can also build good credit by getting Department Store and Gas Company credit cards. By having your very own major credit card, you can qualify for instant credit at many department stores and gas stations.
Once you have established a good credit rating, you will be eligible for loans, credit cards, and other items of credit.
Rodney
Is this really a late mortgage payment?
For Nov and Dec 2006 only half payments were made each time. I don’t remember making half payments twice and can only find the bank transaction for two half payments to the lender.
Both paid in the months due but reported to the credit bureaus as late payments by 30 days at least 2 times. This reporting has brought my credit score down I’m sure. Can I dispute it?
I have proof of the half payments. If I submit it to the bureaus will they retract it so that it does not read that way on my credit report? I was told that if you pay something they can’t report it as late or unpaid for that month. I didn’t make half payments deliberately as I would not have done that twice.
Also, Does correcting multiple mistakes like address and name mistakes raise your credit score? I pulled all three reports and they all have multiple variations of my name, past addresses, and places of employment. Does that bring my score down due to suspicion? Do disputes look bad?
Well I agree that it was not the full payment that I agreed to pay. However, it was a payment. Should I just add comments to my credit report that I made payments for those months so that it won’t seem like I just abandoned two months. Or should I just leave well enough alone.
I think it’s junky for all of those misnformations to be on the credit report. Any teacher would give a junky paper a low grade and a well put together paper a higher grade. I had one creditor pull my report for me and it was pulled by inputting the wrong name. All throughout the report it read that incorrect name so I expect that will be another addition to the report. This is so frustrating. I was doing so well and now I have those marks. 
Bostonian, thanks for your response but relax your getting irritated helps nothing, It’s my lender’s loan and my credit. Nothing affects you. I don’t have any other blemishes so it’s a lesson learned. I didn’t say I should get a free ride. Obviously if I have a house and a loan I haven’t been mooching off of anyone as you say. No point in you gettting your blood pressure up. Hope you calm down later. 
Gina
Fixing Credit Report Errors
After taking the first step of obtaining a free credit score report, the next most common step to improving your credit score is to correct any errors that might be present. Strangely enough, errors do occur, and it is well worth taking the time to dispel such inconsistencies. You must carefully scrutinize the report in order to correct things like account numbers, names, wrong information, as well as items that are out of date. The last error type is the most common mistake and when corrected can have an important impact on your score.
There are guidelines that regulate how long certain kind of information can be recorded in your credit score. For example, most undesirable information that is over seven years old may be removed. This includes lawsuits, judgments, paid tax liens, accounts dispatched for collection, records of criminal activity (other than convictions), late payments, and even child support and many other pieces of possibly adverse information. This is great news for those that have blemishes on their credit report from years ago. These things will not show up forever. Even insolvencies that are older than ten years can be dismissed from your score. Getting rid of this outdated undesirable information can have an immediate impact on your score, especially depending on the severity of the problem.
It may seem silly, but it is just as important to check things like your Social Security number, name, address, phone number, and information concerning your occupation. These mistakes might be outdated or simply entered incorrectly. These errors actually do occur. In the same way, errors also occur concerning your involvement with certain accounts. It is possible that suits or credit accounts that do not belong to you show up on your credit report. This is also true of accounts that have been paid in full. Sometimes these accounts may not have been updated and still show an outstanding balance.
By filling out a request for reinvestigation form or writing a letter, you can correct these errors that are detrimental to your overall credit score. You should, as carefully as possible, reference every inaccurate or outdated piece of data that appears on your report as well as describe why that information is incorrect. The reporting agency will then investigate those items and contact you within 30 days to notify you of any changes. This process may also be expedited if you are trying to qualify for a mortgage or car loan. This is known as a rapid rescore.
Once you have rid your free credit score report of any incorrect information, you can then begin to add positive information. This might be through a new loan, a secured credit card or simply making responsible payments on the accounts you already have. By double-checking your credit report for errors you might save yourself a great deal of time in the task of recreating your credit merit.
Norman