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Credit reference agencies can help you identify any mistakes that appear on your credit report. By checking your credit report for free once a year you can notify credit agencies of any errors on your credit report and have them resolved before it effects your credit score.
== == Collection agencies do not have the legal right to pull your credit report unless you gave them permission.
They should.You can dispute it with the credit agency.Send the credit agency a dispute letter .
By definition, you have 'bad credit' if you pay your debts late or fail to pay them altogether. Therefore, if you have bad credit due to debts, or late payments, and you have no money, there is no way for you to repair your bad credit. But sometimes bad credit can be due to errors on your credit report. If this is the case, obtain a copy of your credit report, notify the credit reporting agency of the errors, and they will check into their accuracy and remove them from your credit report if they find that they are indeed truly errors.
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Credit reference agencies can help you identify any mistakes that appear on your credit report. By checking your credit report for free once a year you can notify credit agencies of any errors on your credit report and have them resolved before it effects your credit score.
== == Collection agencies do not have the legal right to pull your credit report unless you gave them permission.
Unfortunately, I know from experience. I've been told that they would be notified immediately. However, it can take at least 3 months to come off of your credit report. Don't forget that you can get 1 free credit report a year from the government.
They should.You can dispute it with the credit agency.Send the credit agency a dispute letter .
By definition, you have 'bad credit' if you pay your debts late or fail to pay them altogether. Therefore, if you have bad credit due to debts, or late payments, and you have no money, there is no way for you to repair your bad credit. But sometimes bad credit can be due to errors on your credit report. If this is the case, obtain a copy of your credit report, notify the credit reporting agency of the errors, and they will check into their accuracy and remove them from your credit report if they find that they are indeed truly errors.
Unless you have given a collection agency written permission to pull a full credit report they are in violation of credit laws.
By federal mandate, the credit reporting agency must NOT report you to the credit bureaus until 30 days past the date of the letter sent to you.
A collection agency can report you to the credit bureau for any amount of money. There are agencies that will report for amounts under a hundred dollars.
If you have been turned down for credit recently you are entitled by law to get a free credit report from the credit reporting agency that supplied the information. Call or write the agency to make your request.
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