By mistake. Waste no time contacting the credit reporting companies, and demand that this entry be removed from your credit report.
It is possible but not advisable to break a lease on a car. The car would be repossessed, and the repossession would go on your credit report.
No. Your credit report is a record of all transactions on reported accounts. The repossession will show in the history, but so will the redemption.
If your power gets shut off and you go in and pay the bill current, did your power get shut off?
Goes on your credit as a repossession.
The repossession stays on your credit report for 7 years.
A Lot.
YES
It won't help much unless you can sweet-talk the lender and convince him to remove the repossession from the credit report. Otherwise, the repossession stays on the record and the only 'improvement' to your credit rating would be the lack of an accompanying past due status.
A repossession can drastically hurt your credit score. The repossessed account may report late payments (30, 60, 90 days late), a pad due balance, and a charge-off. A repossession can lower your credit score anywhere from 30 to 200 points depending on the other accounts reporting on your credit report.
Think about it. IF the lender waited until the loan was paid off,zillions of repos would NEVER be reported. Sooo, they report them as they happen.
No, because you have your own separate credit report.
There are 2 ways to remove a repossession from your credit report. You can dispute it to the credit bureaus under the FCRA and they have 30 days to verify the listing or it must be removed from your credit reports or you can contact the creditor that repossessed the car and negotiate the removal of it upon payment of any money owed. The entry is likely to be changed to late, but paid. Most of these fall off after 7 years.