How to Remove Collection Accounts from Your Credit Report

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How to Remove Collection Accounts from Your Credit Report

Collection accounts are typically seriously past due accounts that have been assigned to an attorney or collection agency. Collection accounts can remain on your credit report for 7 years from the date of the initial missed payment that led to the collection (the original delinquency date). The following techniques will teach you how to remove collections from your credit reports. These are the exact same methods that credit repair companies charge up to $3,500 to perform.

What the Credit Bureaus Don't Want You to Know:

1. A study released by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group in June 2004 found that 79% of the consumer credit reports surveyed contained some kind of error or mistake.

2. Once you dispute an account, it must be proven or it cannot remain on your report. If the credit bureau cannot verify the item when investigated, it must be removed from your file whether or not it's true.

3. Every negative item on your report can be denied or challenged at any time. The credit bureau must re-investigate every time it is challenged and if the item cannot be verified within a "reasonable amount of time", it must be removed from the file.

4. Many times the creditor does not re-verify in time or the credit bureau is busy and does not handle your dispute properly. It must then be deleted.

5. The older an item, the more difficult it is to verify. Creditors seldomly keep records for longer than a couple years.

Steps to Repair Your Credit:

1. Obtain your three credit reports.

2. Review the reports and locate the negative items.

3. Dispute the negative items with the credit bureaus.

For more information on how to remove collection accounts and other negative items from your credit reports, vist the Credit Repair Help site!

Also, check out the following credit repair topics:

How to Remove Bankruptcies
How to Remove Foreclosures
How to Remove Repossessions
How to Remove Charge-Offs
How to Remove Judgments
How to Remove Tax Liens
How to Remove Late Payments

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