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Few people get through their entire lives without having a few credit problems. Unless you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth you are likely to suffer a credit complication or two. It’s almost inevitable in this day and age. Learning how to repair your credit report can help you to get a home mortgage, car loans, credit cards and more and having good credit can definitely make your life easier.

To repair your credit the first thing you will need to do is to know what is on your reports, not just one report but all three reports from the big three credit reporting companies, TransUnion, Equifax and Experian. Get a free report from each of them and see the bad credit that you have to contend with for yourself.

Next set out to improve your credit reports by actively working towards removing negative listings and improving the positive listings. A popular and effective way to remove negative credit is to dispute the negative accounts by writing the consumer reporting agencies a letter outlining the inconsistencies of the negative credit.

An often overlooked but very important aspect of repairing your credit involves creating more good credit and improving the positive listings. A good way to accomplish this is by requesting a higher credit limit with the lenders that you are in good standing with. Get a higher limit but do not use it! Keep your balance below 30% of the amount you are approved for in order to improve your credit scores.

Building a long-term solid history with creditors who will report your good credit to the credit bureaus will go a long way to helping you to establish long-term good credit. Make sure that the credit obligations that you now have remain current and try to stop using additional credit. Ironically the people who have the highest credit scores are the people who have a solid access to credit but don’t use it too much.

It is important to realize that you can do all of the things to repair your credit on your own. However, there are strong, successful and extremely useful companies who can help you for a fee. It may be worth it to investigate some of these companies as they specialize in credit repair and they have developed an expertise. If a specialized credit repair company can help you out and they can do it easier and faster than you can do it yourself it would probably be well worth saving the time and the headaches of doing it yourself.

Before you hire a credit repair company make sure that you check out the company and make sure that they are following the guidelines set by the Credit Repair Organizations Act. This is an act that was put into place to protect consumers from dishonest practices by organizations that claim to repair credit but do not. There are some credit repair companies who have been around for many years and these companies have good, solid reputations. Make sure that you are using a reputable company if you decide to hire a professional.

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As a well known credit guru people regularly ask me if credit repair really works.  Credit repair can be very effective if performed the right way.

The real issue is that many “credit repair” companies collect money from consumers for credit repair services.  But the services they perform are nothing more than mailing the credit bureaus simple dispute letters.

For example, it might be disputed that the item really doesn’t belong to the consumer or that the consumer never really went late on the derogatory item.

The hope is that the creditor will not respond to the dispute and the items will be removed off the credit report as a result.  These types of credit disputes depend on creditor ignorance or human error to be effective.

But over the last few years the credit bureaus have wised up to these credit repair methods.  To counter, the credit bureaus now use sophisticated computer systems named E-Oscar and OCR.

These computers sniff out letters which appear to come from credit companies and then automatically respond to those disputes calling them frivolous.  The credit bureaus’ E-Oscar computer then electronically processes the dispute nearly eliminating human error.

These credit bureau computers now render these types of disputes minimally effective.  Some items will get deleted to simply be placed back on the report a short time later, and typically the only accounts that will be permanently removed are older accounts creditors no longer care about.

BUT, all hope is not lost…

TRUE credit repair is actually very effective, but it also is time consuming.  Accounts have to be disputed to the credit bureaus in a mythological manner and the most effective disputes are done direct with the creditor themselves.

There are hundreds of consumer protection laws such as FACTA, The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, HIPPA, The Fair Credit Billing Act, and many more.

Many creditors blatantly ignore and violate these laws with the hopes that you will not have the knowledge or time to be able to challenge them.

And they are right; you would have to spend endless time learning all of the hundreds of consumer protection laws to know enough to challenge your creditors successfully on your own.

But, using these law violations as leverage to force the creditor to delete the negative items is a VERY effective tactic to use to repair your credit.  Credit companies who use this tactic and participate in direct creditor disputing typically see deletion rates of 70% or higher.

The drawback is in order to effectively dispute and delete your negative accounts, you will spend countless hours learning how to dispute and delete your negative credit items.

Or you can find a highly recommended professional company to do it for you instead.  But make sure you find a reputable company.

There are only a few 100% legal credit companies in the U.S.  One of the most well known companies who produce the strongest and fastest results is Elite Credit Inc out of the Tampa Florida area (www.perfectcreditfast.com.)

I have personally seen their dispute methods and results, and even I am impressed.  You won’t find faster or stronger results at such a low price anywhere else that I have seen.

Or you can visit online credit forums and start learning how to go at it alone.  Whatever you decide to do, DON’T decide to do NOTHING at all.

Bad credit is estimated to cost an individual consumer over ,000,000 in a 30 year time period.

Strong dispute methods should remove over 70% of your negative items, and this could be the difference between you just struggling living paycheck to paycheck or living the life of your dreams.