Review the Credit Accounts in Your Credit Report to Improve Your Credit Score

Once a consumer is familiar with the components from a credit report that factor into a credit score, one of the first step steps to try and improve a credit score is to review the credit report for errors and inaccurate information.  Credit reports are often filled with numerous errors however; most of these errors do not impact a credit score.  The focus in reviewing the credit report is to have the accounts and records that impact the credit score repaired or removed. When reviewing a … [Read more...]

Understanding Pay for Delete Letters

Removing negative information from a credit report is the fastest method to increase an individual’s credit score.  One of the procedures available for removing negative or derogatory records from a credit report is using what is referred to as a Pay for Delete Letter.  The pay for delete letter name describes exactly what this document is.  A pay for delete letter is sent to the creditor or collector agency asking that they remove the bad payment record from your credit report in return … [Read more...]