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Yes, you can. If you are attempting to get a loan, possibly, the company you are working with can do this for you with the credit servicer they use. If not, then you can order your credit report and then turn around and dispute it with the credit bureau stating duplicate entry and they have 30 days in which to verify this and then remove it from your credit report.
You should dispute and have this consolidated with the correct information. Not all creditors or people looking at the credit report would notice this was the same account.
A dispute on a credit report can take up to 60 days to be resolved.
Yes, late payments can be removed from your credit report. Under the Fair Credit Reporting, any consumer can dispute anything on their credit report they believe to be erroneous or inaccurate. If you fall under this category, send a dispute letter to the credit bureau asking for verification on the account, they have 30 to days to verify it or it must be removed.
You can dispute any incomplete or any imprecise information on your credit report.
The best way to win a credit report dispute is to show proof of your claim.
I had the same issue, and technical they can sometimes be a double reporting on your account. You have the right to send that in as a dispute, requesting that one of entries be removed, as these double entries do effect your credit.
You pull your credit report at credit report .com and as long as it has been seven years you can go online to dispute it. It should say dispute just push the button or call to dispute it they should have a number for each credit report which concist of three separate ones.
It would depend on whether or not this business account was showing on your personal report.It is customary for business loans/credit accounts to need a personal guarantor. Personally guaranteed accounts may show on your credit report. To dispute information on your D&B report visit www.dandb.com/companyupdate
Charge-offs remain on your credit report for 7 years. If the account has been included in a bankruptcy, it should be marked as such...."included in bankruptcy". However, according to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, if you dispute the charge-off with the credit bureau and the creditor can not verify the account, it must be removed from your credit report immediately. Only the original creditor or the credit bureaus can remove a charge off, either through negotiations or through the dispute process.
You will have to contact each of the three credit reporting agencies separately in order to dispute charges and false information on your credit report that does not belong to you.