Barney Garcia asked:


Things are fine till your credit report carries every record with correct information. A slight difference from the original facts and figures will create hues and cries. In turn this will become an issue of dispute. Your credit report will therefore be considered to be a false and fake one with inaccurate statements and misinformation.

When can your credit report be challenged? When you have hidden some information or placed some wrong data that can be purposefully or due to ignorance. This is one way of looking at the dispute of your credit report. Another is related to your own findings that whatever the credit report is saying is not at all related to your credit history. These are the general possibilities of the disputes that arise with the credit report.

What if dispute occurs?

Always remember one thing. If it’s your intentional manipulation of the credit history, troubles will increase for you. Things can be dragged till court. But if it’s the mistake of the concern authority they will be liable to rectify the errors and place them correct. In either ways you will have to proceed stepwise to get things done.

The consumer reporting company which is responsible for the issuing of the credit report comes under the norms of FCRA. Say for instance the mistake lies in your name and all other information is correct. Still your very own credit report won’t be yours with this slight difference. After all the primary identity, the name is wrong.

Again it can happen so that the name is yours but all other information in the credit history is not yours. This can be a case of two persons holding the same name and there has been an interchange in the information by the issuing authority of the credit reports itself. There may be several other reasons as well due to which erroneous reports come up.

Getting out of any such dispute

The Credit Reporting Agency can solve your problem. You will have to take the initiative to get them informed about the disparity in your credit report. Things are to be put clearly in written with convincing testimonials. It will take around thirty days for the investigation and after the final scrutiny a new credit report will be prepared on your name.

This sounds like a smooth process. But for you it might not be so. If the process is lingered, one way is left to help you to carry on with the dispute yet not being challenged by anyone in the credit deal with you. Just request the CRA to attach a copy of the disputed report along with the credit report copy so that whoever comes across it will be aware of the real fact. And this would prevent any sort further hassle till things are rightly placed.



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Master Yoda asked:


I know that even after it’s discharged it stays on my report for 7-10 years, but what determines if it’s the 7 the full 10, or somewhere in the middle?

Can I write to the credit bureau’s to have it removed or the court where it was filed; it was discharged in 1999.

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curious asked:


I had an eviction in another state a couple years ago for an apartment I was a co-lessee on. If this doesn’t show up on my credit report, does this mean it wasn’t reported? Other than me telling them, how would a potential new landlord find out about this?
Thanks, but what if the references I give them have nothing to do with that eviction? (i.e. friends/family here)

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none asked:


I checked my free credit report and noticed that there were a couple of unauthorized inquiries listed (I was out of the country and was not using or applying for anything.). Can I prevent this type of thing?

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Ryan asked:


In 2003, Congress passed a law that made an amendment to the Fair Credit Reporting Act that requires each of the three credit reporting agencies (Trans Union, Experian, and Equifax) to provide you with a free annual credit report. The law allows any U.S. consumer to access their free annual credit report once from each and any agencies over a 12 month period. That means you can get a copy from Trans Union in January, a copy from Equifax in May, and a copy from Experian in July, or get all three at once if you like.

What’s important to note is that there is only one, official free Annual Credit Report website that is authorized to provide you with this information at no charge. There are many sites that look and sound familiar to the Annual Credit Report site, but they are not the official site that provides your information for free. If you end up on a different website unintentionally and are offered a copy of your credit report for free, be sure to stop and read the fine print.

The alternative sites may offer you a your credit report for free, but only with a the purchase of another one of their products of by signing up for a trial offer, which you will end up paying for every month after the trial period until you cancel the subscription.

As you are working to clean your credit report or fix your credit score, don’t get duped into paying for a service you didn’t intend to join. The official free Annual Credit Report website may offer additional service, but does not require you to accept those offers to obtain your free annual credit report.



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debi_j_m1955 asked:


I had an alert message on my credit monitoring and found out the name and city and phone number for the mortgage company. And do I have to file a police report first in order to report it.

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Sophie Wilson asked:


Annual credit report offers the information about the credit history, payments made, credit worthiness and personal information. This report as the name suggests are an account for the above mentioned things for one complete financial year.

Credit is an important set of information to carry out financial transactions at every level in the market. Most of the capital invested in a business comes from credit. The credit lenders provide all the information of a borrower including the credit details to the credit bureaus which keep the track of all the transactions made. These agencies govern and formulate the reports for credit exchanges and fall under the federal law. These agencies are Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. Annual credit report is very important tool since it can be used as a reminder for your due credit payments. It is also source that can get you another credit, or loan or even job if it is a clear report.

On the basis of annual credit report the credit bureaus assign a credit score which helps getting further credits and even mark the market value of a person. A person should access this report because it can help in avoiding the inaccuracies in the account details and even can help reducing the threats like personal identification thefts. The annual credit reports are available online also and can be accessible easily from a number of sites that provide this facility free of cost.

Annual credit report can be a proficient tool for keeping a check on the credit payments. This tool can help us in getting further credit and loans. Annual credit report and credit score provide us a ground that marks our market credibility. By regularly checking this report one can avoid any legal action that can be taken against him. By checking this report you can protect your self to be highlighted under the defaulter category incase of non payments. It is an important tool which is available to you at just a mouse click. And it can help you in getting the upcoming opportunities.



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justin narin asked:


The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, signed into law on Dec. 4, 2003, gives every American the right to a free credit report every year from each of the three major credit bureaus — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. What the law doesn’t do is give every American the ability to read their credit report. Not one word in the law says the credit bureaus have to write it in plain, easy-to-understand language. Go to www.ftc.gov and click on consumers then credit and read it for yourself. Hopefully you’ll stay awake.

While all credit reports follow a basic format, some vary so what you are about to read doesn’t apply across the board. If you didn’t get it directly from one of the bureaus mentioned above, your best bet for a translation is the source providing your copy.

Here is the four-part skeleton most bureaus use. Part one is your identifying information. This would be information like your name, social security number, previous addresses, current address, date of birth, driver’s license number, telephone number, spouse’s name and your employer and length of employment. As with all sections, pay close attention because chances are pretty darned good, some of it is wrong.

It is wrong because this information comes to the bureau from a myriad of sources and the bureau doesn’t take the time to update or correct it. That leaves you as your own correcting agent.

Part two is your credit history. This is usually the longest part of your report because you probably have had department store accounts, multiple credit cards, multiple bank and other financial institution loans, mortgages, car loans, lines of credit, home equity loans and other

transactions involving credit.

Sometimes you will see the bureau calls these accounts trade lines. No big deal because they are still your accounts.

These accounts usually start with when you opened the account then tell the type or kind of credit (installment, car loan, personal loan, etc.) and whether it is in your name or someone else is on the account with you. The total amount of the loan with your high credit limit or if it is a credit card, your highest balance follows. The next thing it shows is how much you still owed and if the payments are fixed or minimum monthly amounts. Your status, open/inactive/closed/paid, follow your payments then comes the item everybody wants to know, how well you’ve paid on the account.

This is where the bureaus list if you are late, and if late, how late and how often you’ve been late. If you are not late, it will show you pay on time.

Part three is called Public Inquiries or Public Records. This is where tax liens, judgments, foreclosures and bankruptcies are listed. You want this part to be blank and I do mean blank. If you see anything here, attempt to correct immediately if not sooner.

Part four is the Inquiries section. It is divided into two parts. Part one is the inquiries you initiate by filling out a credit application. This section is generally referred to as the hard inquiry section because you are the initiator of the inquiries.

The second part is called the soft inquiry section. What you’ll find here are the names of companies who have sent you offers of credit or current creditors who are monitoring your account.

Sometimes there is a fifth section called Remarks. Read it because you never know who reported what about you.

Each credit report bureau places an explanation of terms usually on the backside of the report pages. In it, they explain what the numbers and letters you see next to your accounts mean. So, if you see something like I9, don’t fret, as it should be defined in the explanation of terms.

Of course, I9 could be negative, so you may have to fret. Either way, you are now almost totally armed to deal with that free credit report the law said the bureaus had to give you.

Good luck and may all your credit be A+.

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K asked:


I’ve been wondering about this issue. I’ve never filed but wonders how it works as far as how many points it takes away from your credit report.
I’m not sure if this question can be answered but please go for it.
I’m not thinking about it. I was just wondering because I hear people doing it like its a great thing. Given the fact that it can cost someone a potential job, I hope I never have to do it. lol

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paristoys asked:


I don’t want an inquiry to go on my credit report if I get a secured credit card. So I am hoping that the bank that I apply at will not look up my credit report, leaving an inquiry on there.

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