A 609 letter requests the disclosure of information on your credit report. Section 609 of the Fair Credit Reporting Act grants consumers full access to their credit reports. Read more.
A charge-off damages your credit report, but you can try to remove it by disputing it, or paying it and requesting a “pay-for-delete” arrangement. Read this article to learn how. Read more.
It can seem overwhelming when you think about getting your credit back in shape, but there are two major actions you can take to do it: check your credit reports for errors to fix, and pay down debts. Read more.
With what you've heard about the challenges of having bad credit, you might think it's better to have no credit score at all. That might be oversimplifying things. Read this article to compare each situation. Read more.
Credit reports and credit scores are often confused. Keep reading to learn more about the differences between a credit report vs credit score! Read more.