Did you authorize the inquiry on your credit report?
Did you apply for credit or apply for a loan? Think now. All inquiries for credit will legitimately land on your credit report. Did you get turned down for an auto loan? Maybe you applied for a credit card to transfer high interest balances to a new low interest card with an introductory rate.
Get Proof
The burden is on the company who reported the inquiry to the three major bureaus to prove to that you did in fact apply for credit from them. Write them letters asking for proof. You have the right to a copy of any document you signed or any recordings of conversations where you authorized the lender to check your credit report.
Cover your tracks
As always, all correspondence regarding your credit should be in a letter form and mailed via certified mail from the postal service. After weeks or sometimes even months of going back and forth with the lender you might find that the lender has no proof of your authorization to apply for credit. You could be a victim of identity theft or the lender might have made a simple mistake when entering a social security number in their system. Don’t just lie down and accept mystery credit inquiries on your credit report! Do the work or have a professional do the work for you. If the lender cannot prove you authorized to apply for credit by all means ask them to delete the inquiry from your credit report at once!
Follow up
This is why even the simplest credit fixes can be so aggravating. You must take personal responsibility for what is affecting your credit score. This requires documentation and diligence. After you’ve settled the inaccuracy with the lender you must send all documentation certified mail to Experian, Equifax and Trans Union credit bureaus.It can take months and several attempts to get the credit inquiry deleted from your credit report. The staff at Lexington Law Office is happy to handle this for you. In fact, they can take care of the erroneous entry from step one!
"I just want to share with you my story about how my credit situation. If you are someone struggling with bad credit, then I was walking in your exact same shoes...
And today - if you look behind me - this is the house that I bought.
So, obviously my credit situation has changed.
Basically, while I was in college I ran up my credit cards and acquired a lot of unmanageable debt which destroyed my credit rating.
About a-year-and-a-half ago when I went to try to buy a house, the banks laughed at me and made me feel bad about what happened in college. (They basically implied that I was a deadbeat SCUMBAG even though it really wasn't all my fault).
I knew that I had to fix my credit, but didn't know how to do it myself so I went to Lexington Law.
Now, literally within several months, I was able to purchase a $300,000 new home without any trouble at all obtaining a mortgage.
So instead of going into banks with bad credit and being looked at as a scumbag, the banks were more than willing to help.
In fact, when I applied for my mortgage and the banker ran my credit, he came back and was saying...
"Wow! Sure thing sir. We'd love to help you out."
Lexington Law literally changed my life.
I went from being the person who has bad credit to being the person who is living in what I consider my dream home at age 29.
I had basically every kind of negative listing shy of a bankruptcy.
Lexington Law has raised my credit score at least 237 points. I just checked my FICO score which is now a 737. When I started with Lexington Law, it was below 500!"
I encourage anyone struggling with bad credit to pick up the phone and give Lexington Law a call.
It was super-encouraging to see my credit score improve each month as the negative items were deleted from my credit reports. I thought some of the bad credit was permanent since creditors misled me into believing that delinquent information would stay on my credit report for the next seven years.
However, through their dispute process and "goodwill interventions," Lexington Law proved it is possible to remove any questionable negative item. (it is the same as pleading 'not guilty' in a court of law).
Additionally, the paralegal assigned to my case showed me other credit rebuilding techniques such as:
Deleting the negative credit items like charge offs and the credit card judgment, combined with the credit rebuilding techniques, rapidly improved my credit score. In fact, in month two my score went up 74 points!
After living with bad credit for so long, it was really encouraging to see that I was making progress in the right direction.
Not only did the attorneys at Lexington Law show me results, they also provided excellent customer service along the way. If you are someone who enjoys that "personal touch", then you may like how Lexington Law assigns a paralegal to your case.
My paralegal (Stephanie) was always available to discuss the status of my case over the phone and email. Even though I didn't expect or ask for it, my attorney would also periodically give me a call to check in.
Here are some strategies Lexington Law used to delete the really stubborn bad credit - such as the credit card judgment:
You can also access you case online anytime you like. (I enjoyed logging in just to see all the deletions!)
If you are struggling with a bad credit score because of negative credit items, then I truly hope that you start repairing your credit today. I know how humiliating bad credit is and I know how easy it is just to 'sweep it under the rug' and pretend it will go away on its own.
I realize that your situation is probably a little different than mine, however, Lexington Law has already deleted questionable charge offs, a credit card judgment, late payments, collection items, and inquiries from my credit report and raised my credit score to a 737!
Here is a shot of my credit score online last month -:
To get started repairing your credit, call Lexington Law today direct at:
1-800-232-2903 (toll-free)
Or, if you want a Lexington Law paralegal to call you, click here.
