My Professional Credit Repair Experience Says…
There is so much information on the web on the internet regarding credit repair. nearly all of it is guiding people toward expensive credit repair clinics and attorneys who will charge the consumer hefty fees for their service. Of course this is not shocking. The internet is the most significant market place ever created. But it is also the most troublesome to navigate and it is even more difficult to know who to trust on the internet. The only person you know you can trust is yourself! So, when it comes to fixing your credit, you should turn to yourself first before you throw down hundreds, if not thousands, to a credit repair company or a credit repair attorney.
If you type in “self credit repair” on Google, the first link you will find (below the comercial ones who spent thousands to get in the highlighted spots) is a link to the Federal Trade Commission. You should review that information. It is hugely important and should persuade you that fixing your credit on your own is the absolute best place to start. I know from experience with clients who have done credit repair by themselves that it will also probably be the place that you will stop too. Your success doing it on your own will probably be sufficient for your needs. The FTC website gives an example of a good dispute letter. You could easily use it. You would just have to cut and paste it into WORD and enter all the necessary information to generate your letters.
Filling in all the data from the items you wish to dispute is the lengthy part of the process. You will need to commit several hours depending onhow many items you want to dispute. This is where most people become discouraged and turn to a credit repair company. How do you know if you are filling it in correctly? How do you know where the letters should be sent? How do you know what to send along with the letters? Why are you sending additional items with the letters? What are you supposed to dispute? What should you not dispute? It gets hairy.
Generally speaking, if you are interested in repairing your credit it is because you were turned down for a a credit card, a mortgage, or car loan. My advice is that you should visit with the person who denied you. Ask them what you ought to do? Discuss with them your credit report. Chat with them and go over everything on your report. Ask them if they could aid you in repairing your credit? It will probably be the case that your loan officer is familiar with these kinds of things. They read credit reports all the time. They know why people have the score they have. You can go over every item with your loan officer and determine what is okay and what is in error. Then you can use the letter made available by the FTC and dispute those items .
This is not rocket science, but unfortunately, credit repair companies would have you believe that it is because they want you to give up and sign on with them. Of course, they can generate the credit repair letters much faster than you because they have employees whose job is to do just that.
Because this is a subject that interests me, I spend time reviewing different credit repair websites and videos. I am not against people making money, but I am absolutely opposed to people charging huge fees for really simple services. They hook you with free analysis, but your loan officer would probably do the same thing for you for nothing too. I also sympathize with the consumer’s situation. There is plenty that is not understood about the process and it is hard to tell how it can best be done. It’s bike shop for a tune up on our bike. The truth is that most people could to it on their own if they had the tools and a few hours to read the manual. But even having the manual there is the fear that you might do something wrong. So it appears that some sort of assistance is going to be best in the field of credit repair. That’s why I again suggest you talk to your loan officer.
On top of credit repair companies, I have seen “credit repair software” available for $249. I watched some demo videos and trust me, you would be better off finding a credit repair company. The time you will spend trying to puzzle out the software is stupid and you still have to do all the data entry for every account you want to dispute.
My professional opinion is that you should produce the credit repair letters by yourself because credit repair clinics and software are a waste of money. You can find good info on the internet for free or it is entirely possible that your loan officer could walk you through the process so that you do it all correctly.
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