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Chris Rutherford asked:




Have you done everything you can to improve your credit score but find that it’s not enough? After all your efforts, you may still need a higher score to qualify for a lease, a loan, or lower interest rates. You may be wondering how to get the last 50 to 100 points you need to reach your goals.

When you’ve exhausted all the options with DIY credit repair techniques and self-help solutions, consider the following 3 reasons to hire a credit repair company.

Reason #1 – They are the Professionals

The first reason to hire a professional credit repair service: they know all the tricks and techniques to get things done. This makes sense since repair credit is their job and they do it every day for many people. They’ve seen all kinds of credit problems and know how to solve them more than you do.

Reason #2 – You Just Don’t Have the Time

Maybe you are just too busy or too tired at the end of the day to fight with the credit bureaus and debt collectors. Instead of getting nowhere day after day while your credit score suffers and your financial life remains in ruins, hire a team of professionals who know the system and whose job it is to fight for you so that you don’t have to.

Reason #3 – You Get Stuck by Yourself

It really isn’t that difficult to dispute your credit report and raise your credit score a few points by yourself. Our site offers free tips on how to do this. However, at some point you’ll get stuck and not make any more progress cleaning up your credit. When you’ve done all that you can and your credit score still falls short of your goal, it is time to hire professional help.

Why It’s Important to Fix Your Credit

Not taking action to improve your credit will not make your problems go away. Every day you leave your bad credit alone, you are paying for it dearly – with higher interest rates on credit cards, loans, insurance policies, and denied opportunities to rent an apartment, refinance your house, buy the car or dream home you want, and maybe even get hired for a job.

There is a lot of information online about how to repair or improve your credit yourself. Once you’ve reached a dead end with self-help credit repair, it is time to hire a professional credit repair company to get you back on track.

Corey

Jon Arnold asked:




It probably comes as no surprise to most people that “somewhere” there is a credit report on them that knows everything they ever did, good and bad, financially. Unfortunately, this is where their knowledge stops though, and not knowing the real scoop about how this really works is actually hurting them.

There are three companies that keep track of your financial and credit history, which are Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax. They know more about you than you think or perhaps are even comfortable with, but that’s what it is. They compete with each other so they do not share information between them. Some lenders report to one of them every month, other lenders report to another one, and large financial obligations like your mortgage probably report to two of them or even all three.

So far no news alerts but it gets worse. They are in business for profit, so they want to get as many lenders as possible to report to them for their customer’s credit information. They occasionally have specials for lenders to switch to them, so Discover may have reported to Experian last year and this year they report to TransUnion, and your Exxon account may have reported to Experian last year and now reports to TransUnion. This type of change occurs on a very regular basis.

Are you starting to see where a problem could (and does) occur? What happens is that not one of these credit reporting agencies really has a complete and accurate credit picture about you. Further, when a creditor of yours who reported to one agency that you were past due and then switches to another credit reporting agency, the first credit reporting agency continues to report you as being past due on that account because they never get corrected information.

The truth is that studies have shown that the majority of people in the US have at least one inaccurate item on their credit reports. That is almost a guarantee that there are errors on your credit report. The impact of those errors means that your credit score is being calculated lower than it really should be, which means that you are paying higher interest rates than you could be, as well as the other areas of your life a credit report affects.

There is no self-correct mechanism built into the system, and these errors will never be corrected unless YOU do it. There are right and wrong ways to get this information corrected and if you don’t do it right, you could make it even worse. You need to make your dispute be legitimate, not frivolous. There are a lot of people out there with accurate negative information on their credit report who are disputing that information with the credit bureaus in the hopes that even though it is accurate, it will disappear. You on the other hand have a legitimate beef that you want incorrect information corrected.

There is no sense in having inaccurate information about you being reported as accurate and factual. Get it corrected, and this is something you can do yourself, where you do not need to spend money on a “credit fix”. This is entirely legal, and is indeed your responsibility. You are only hurting yourself if you don’t get this done.

Sherry