DFC is completely off base with his review. You need a book like “guerilla credit” exactly because of people like DFC (a banker – little wonder) who believes that everyone with bad credit is a loser who simply needs to pay his/her bills. Well, I have news for you DFC, this book is extremely helpful for those of us who are the victims of credit reporting agencies who couldn’t care less about the accuracy of the information they are reporting.

I am one of the many people who, at 30 years old, had never requested copies of my credit reports, and who thought I had perfect credit prior to inexplicably being turned down for a loan. Much to my horror, I found out that there were more than 40 errors in my credit reports. Dozens of accounts that had been closed for many years were still reflecting as open, students loans erroneously reflecting defaults, credit card accounts erroneously reflecting 30 and 60 day late payments. All false information. Using Todd’s book, ALL of this false information has now been removed from my reports. Moreover, this book will teach you how to get results when the reporting agencies play their little games of “verifying” erroneous information. I can’t tell you how many times my reports came back with “information verified” even though I had enclosed written documentation that the information being reported was not correct (it really is unbelievable isn’t it!) Berman explained how to be persistent, get aggressive, and fight these unethical reporting companies and their shoddy work practices.

Even if you legitimately have creditors knocking on your door, this book will give you some very helpful advise as to negotiating a partial payment in return for a promise not to report the negative information to a credit bureau (DFC doesn’t want you to know that). And the book will also tell you how you MAY be able to get some accurate (but old) information removed from your report.

Finally, the credit reporting agencies try very hard to make your report as cryptic as possible in an effort to prevent you from understanding exactly what they are reporting about you. Todd’s book shows you how to read your report – a very important first step. However, I must add that because the book is now 6 years old, and because the agencies keep changing the form of their reports (gee, I wonder why?), this is the book’s biggest downfall right now (and the ONLY reason I didn’t give it 5 stars). PLEASE Todd if you’re reading this, revise your book and publish a new edition!

Notwithstanding this one downfall, I still HIGHLY recommend this book.
Rating: 4 / 5

This book was disappointing. Buying a book without being able to browse it beforehand makes it difficult to know if its what you want. If I would have been able to skim through this book prior to buying, I would not have bought it. It’s not that it’s bad, it’s just that its not what I needed or the title implied. It is not a comprehensive book at all. The title “guerrilla” makes you think it will offer unique, aggressive, insightful, strategic, or uncommonly known tactics to attack your credit repair. It absolutely fell short of that. But what it does deliver is very detailed, easy to follow understanding of BASIC information (what credit is, how to contact the bureaus, what type of letters to send, etc.) It gives you a decent strategy on how to dispute items on your CR. A huge shortcoming for this book is that 100 pages of the 200 page book was given to printing the FCRA (fair credit reporting act). Helpful but a waste. Instead of giving us some “guerrilla tactics” for 100 pages, they print the act instead. If you are really trying to repair your credit and you need real life information and real “guerrilla” tactics then you MUST prepare yourself mentally (it can get legal, psychological and emotional) and use the vast amounts of FREE information and FREE resources available online. Try joining FREE online communities/forums. Avoid people capitalizing on your despair with over-priced credit repair books, credit repair kits, pay-for services (i.e. now bankrupt AmeriDebt) or other books where gazillionaires bloviate about how rich and debt-free THEY are. Good for you. People with poor financial situations and poor credit do need inspiration but people also need practical aggressive ways to get their backs from against the wall. In conclusion, you’d be better off researching online for a few weeks, seeking FREE professional opinions, or checking out books like this one from the library.
Rating: 3 / 5

Lets make this short and sweet… I’ve ready over 15 books on this subject, and this one is one of the best! Just click the buy button and check out. I’ve spent 5 times the price of this book on some of the others, and this one is better than all 15 combined!
Rating: 5 / 5