Repair Bad Credit Yourself
27 March 2009Credit reports hold a lot of weight. If you are applying for a loan, you can be sure your lender will consider your credit report. Insurance companies can use it to determine your rates or whether they will cover you at all. Employers can access it and use it as a factor in offering you a job or promotion. With that much significance placed on your credit report, it is absolutely essential that the information it contains paints you in a good light.
Save money by repairing your credit yourself
The Fair Credit Reporting Act states that consumers can dispute mistakes on their credit report for free. It can be a little time consuming to pull your report, document the error, type up a letter and send it in, so many people hire credit repair agencies to do the boring work for them. There is no real reason, other than the issue of time, to pour out money for work that you can easily do yourself.
There are no secret tricks to credit repair
Don’t be fooled into thinking that you don’t have the knowledge to clean up your credit report and that a credit repair agency knows a bunch of angles that have eluded you. Everything you need to know in order to fix errors on your credit report is readily available and there is nothing in the process that is required to be done by a third party or professional agency that specializes in credit repair.
Keep yourself from getting scammed
You may read how an agency claims to erase bad credit from you report, but that is not true. Inaccurate information, by law, is the only thing that can be changed on a credit report. If you have had a bankruptcy, the only thing that will legally remove it from your credit report is time.
If you decide to use a credit repair company, be prepared to pay between $400 and $2000 for services you can do yourself. You can obtain a credit report with history from all three credit agancies for only $30. The rest of the investment in cleaning up your credit report is in the value of the time it requires.