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How Do You Repair Bad Credit?

Posted by admin on Thursday, June 3rd 2010   

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Living with bad credit can be very stressful, but repairing bad credit might be easier than you realize. Improving your credit rating requires that you take a proactive position and change your beliefs about money. Learn as much as you can about the credit system at credit repair forums and by getting familiar with consumer laws that protect you, especially the FCRA. You can also follow these 4 simple steps:

Step 1: Request a copy of your credit reports from all major credit bureaus. Dispute any questionable negative items on your reports, write to the bureau and ask them to remove the mistakes. It might also help to contact the creditor who reported the error. Some creditors will contact the bureau on your behalf.

Step 2: Negotiate with creditors and work to pay off any outstanding debts. Be careful before paying off old debts as it can harm your credit scores even worse by re-aging the account. Write the creditor a pay for delete letter – an agreement in writing that states that once you pay off the account, they will remove it from your credit report.

Step 3: Rebuild your credit by making all future payments on time and by using credit wisely. If you don’t have a credit card, you should apply for one. If your application is rejected, try to find a co-signer or apply for a secured card – where you deposit some money into a savings account and then get a credit card with a line of credit close to the amount you deposited. Keep credit card balances low.

Step 4: Monitor your credit on a regular basis and lookout for any erroneous or questionable information on your reports. Checking your own credit through a credit monitoring service is OK and will not count against your credit scores.

Learning how to repair and maintain credit can take time, but it’s vitally important to your financial life.  Follow the steps above and you will be on your way to getting the credit you need, when you need it.

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How Do You Write A Credit Dispute Letter?

Posted by admin on Wednesday, June 2nd 2010   

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Writing a quality credit dispute letter is the key to repairing your credit. When writing a credit dispute letter, ‘quality’ simply means straightforward and original. You don’t need to act like an expert, quote any laws or make any threats to the credit bureaus. You simply need to politely and respectfully tell them which item(s) on your credit report you want to dispute and what you want them to do with them.

Do you want them to correct an item or remove it? It’s important to be specific when telling them what you would like them to do. Unnecessary details will confuse investigators and cause unwanted results.

Remember to always include a photocopy of your driver’s license, state issued ID, or U.S. passport and a copy of your social security card, pay stub, W-2 or a recent utility bill. Only 2 forms of ID are required.

You will also want to keep copies of every correspondence with the credit bureaus for your records. Once the credit bureaus receive your letter they have 30 days to respond. You should not contact them before the 30 days is up as it extends the investigation.

Here are some sample credit dispute letters. Do NOT copy these as they are not fill in the blank forms. These are strictly samples and your letter should be original.

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Ken Amaro’s Top Ten Consumer Scams Countdown

Posted by admin on Tuesday, November 16th 2010   

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Ken Amaro’s Top Ten Consumer Scams Countdown

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — They change names and the schemes, but the bottom line is the same: Scammers are out to get your hard earned money. These are Ken Amaro’s top 10 scams to watch out for.

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Crash course on credit: A WAFF 48 News special report

A record number of Americans have “high risk” credit scores. Here’s some tips to help you get your finances back in order.

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Repeat debtor must plan to save

Q. I had to file for bankruptcy in November 2009. The bad part is that I stupidly got myself back into some debt again. What do you think of debt management companies that you send money to each month and they pay a certain amount to creditors?

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3 Ways to Improve Any Credit Score

Posted by admin on Thursday, October 14th 2010   

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Trying to increase your credit score? Here are the 3 best ways to improve any credit score.

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How to Improve Your Credit Score

Posted by admin on Thursday, October 7th 2010   

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Our very own Bankaholic Banker Alicia Lagan shares some great tips on how to raise your credit score (FICO).

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Guarantee Method To Increase Credit Score Fast – Do It Yourself With The Insider Techniques to Increase Your Credit Score

Posted by admin on Sunday, September 26th 2010   

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Learn how to increase credit score fast without spending thousand of dollars paying to attorney or credit repair clinics. The answer, as you probably guessed, is you can now fix credit score yourself. A higher credit score can save you thousands of dollars. Both requires a different approach a.k.a “The Insider Techniques”.

Understanding The Insider Techniques
“Credit repair” is simply the name given to the process of improving your credit score, and removing incorrect items from your credit report.

Insider Techniques involve strategies known as :-

The insider techniques tips are provided by Consumer Publishing Group, which publishes the Credit Secrets Bible (in print since 1994 and updated each year).

The Fact

United States citizens are rich with “buying power” but poor in the knowledge and financial intelligence that tell us how to use it. This might be why over half a million people (597,965) filed for Bankruptcy in 2006.

Most people don’t realize that they are “knowledge-poor” in the area of finances and credit until it’s too late. By the time most of us are aware that we lack financial intelligence, the damage has already been done. This is why understanding credit and credit-repair is so important. For many people, credit repair should be the first step that they take towards a better financial future.

Credit Secrets Bible’s insider techniques have helped hundreds to raise their credit score with simple action plan and tips.

DO YOU KNOW THAT…..?

The credit report banks and businesses get to see has about TWICE the financial information compared to the credit report you receive from the credit bureaus? That’s right. In most cases, the credit bureaus send a much more detailed report to businesses than they send to you. A bit deceiving, isn’t it?

This is why banks and businesses (except mortgage lenders) will NEVER give you a copy of “your” credit report. The credit system is full of “little secrets” like this. Most people find them frustrating.

Credit Secrets Bible will show you how to take each one of these secrets and use it to your advantage.

Tips #1 – LOWER DEBT TO CREDIT RATIO

“I have excellent credit, I pay all my bills off in full every month!” This is a false belief for one to buy into and understanding your debt to credit ratio holds the key to getting your “credit mindset” right.

For example, if you have ,000 in total unsecured revolving credit accounts and you’re currently in debt 00, then your debt to credit ratio is 25%. Since the main way lenders make money is by charging interest, one of the elements of the credit scoring model is driven by your ability to maintain balances and pay over time. This shows your true (long term) credit worthiness which is most profitable to lenders since they make money primarily via interest and not annual fees.

If your debt to credit ratio is high, you can bring it down without selling everything you own. The next tips will explain it.

Tips #2 -Sub Prime Merchandise Cards

Sub Prime Merchandise Cards can be used to increase high credit limit and decrease their debt to credit ratio. A lot of people misunderstand the benefit of this card due to marketers misrepresenting the cards and the growing number of companies promoting them. When you learn how they work one quickly understands why they have been the subject of much misrepresentation.

Credit Secret Bible have explain in details and here how it works: if you get a ,000 card and you finance 0, on your credit report it will look like any other credit card and will do three extremely important things for you.

i. It will increase your current “High Credit Limit” by ,000 almost overnight.

ii. By carrying a small outstanding balance it will positively impact your credit report by building and showing potential lenders your credit worthiness.

iii. With a good payment history you are virtually guaranteed to receive “legitimate” pre-approved credit offers in the future due to other lenders renting your name from the credit bureaus.

This technique is hard to beat for both cost and effectiveness. The whole key is knowing exactly which cards report to the credit bureau and offer the best rates.

Tips #3 – Piggybacking

Piggybacking is not used by nearly as many consumers as it should be. Although it is easy, effective, and extremely fast. Unfortunately, it’s mostly used among parents and siblings while those who can really benefit stay in the dark. You can easily benefit by being an “Authorized User” or “Secondary Account Holder”for a credit card holder.

For an example, if your fiancee holds a credit card with a ,000 limit which has been paid as agreed for the last 10 years, then that complete history will be posted to you if you are the authorized users’ credit report. As you can see, this strategy is usually only used by parents and their reaping credit wise! In fact, in recent years, due to its’ effectiveness, this technique has led individuals with excellent credit scores to “rent out” authorized user accounts on one or even multiple credit cards in return for a fee!

Credit Secrets Bible – provide the breakthrough secret to raise your credits to 249 Points In 90 Days

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What to Do If ATMs, Online Banking Goes Dark

Posted by admin on Sunday, September 26th 2010   

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What to Do If ATMs, Online Banking Goes Dark

A bank can refund late fees, but it can’t fix a credit score hurt by late payment of bills.

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New car loan after bankruptcy?

Consider these factors before deciding to reaffirm a car loan or get a new one to repair credit.

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