CreditRecondition's Education and Information Center
Can I Fix or Improve My Credit Report or Credit Score on My Own?
Yes. Many consumers either want to try credit repair on their own, or have read per the FTC that "do it yourself" credit repair is just as effective as any credit repair company's services. If you simply must give yourself a headache, the web is packed with inexpensive credit repair kits, numerous restoration tips from credit repair forums and books, and sample dispute letters are freely available.
Of course, we know there's a good reason why CreditRecondition's credit repair is so popular... you get what you pay for with "free" advice, and the reality of the "do it yourself" credit repair process is that a lack of time and experience dooms self-help credit repair to failure for many consumers. The alternative is common sense: it helps to work with experienced credit repair professionals.
Our congratulations and support goes to those consumers who spend untold hours defiantly reading credit repair books or forums - and who then type, print, fold, stamp, address, and send dispute letters, wait for results, and repeat the process as needed. But for the price, our clients prefer CreditRecondition credit repair. With one phone call, you can hand your credit repair needs to CreditRecondition and let us do the work... quickly, legally, and efficiently. And disputing isn't everything!
What Does Credit Report Repair Fix on My Credit Reports?
Credit report repair can fix negative, inaccurate information and problems on your credit reports, which in turn improves your credit score and credit history. A late payment, charge-off, bankruptcy, tax lien, collections, and any other negative listings can devastate your credit reports and hurt your credit score by hundreds of points.
Credit repair works to remove negative information that is verified by the credit bureaus as incorrect, inaccurate, misleading, unverifiable, or beyond statutes of limitations via the dispute letter process.
How do I know that credit report repair isn't a scam?
Of course, while it is legal to use a credit repair company, scams will always exist in all businesses. It pays to do your homework before you enroll with a credit repair company. Questions such as clients served, time in business, BBB standing, and checking their policies against the FTC guidelines and relevant governing law like the FCRA and CROA, should be answered easily and immediately by a quality, legitimate credit repair business.
For example, CreditRecondition has been repairing credit reports since 1998, has a blemish-free record with the BBB, and is actively involved in promoting and legitimizing the credit repair marketplace. Many thousands of clients have been fully satisfied with CreditRecondition's credit repair services, and nearly all have seen improvements to their credit reports. CreditRecondition's credit repair specialists have encountered and successfully engaged most credit problems imaginable - and the majority of new clients come to CreditRecondition based on word of mouth referrals from satisfied clients.
As for the problem of credit repair scams... it's no worse than any other growing industry. CROs got a few black eyes when new legislation was interpreted in the 1990s, but lawsuits and complaints have primarily been isolated to a handful of small start-up credit repair firms - firms that may not have been clear as to the intent of governing credit repair law. CreditRecondition is clear, and has a proactive compliance approach.
How Long will Credit Repair Take to Increase My Credit Score?
Our clients see their first credit repair results in about 45-60 days. Repairing credit requires experience, persistence, and a heavy dose of patience.
Your credit dispute letters must be delivered by mail, and the credit bureaus that receive the disputes are granted up to 30 days to respond — 45 if the reports used were obtained for "free" online.
CreditRecondition aggressively disputes your negative credit problems with carefully-timed rounds of dispute letters, and our credit repair program yields fast, permanent results.