If after examining your free credit report, you do not find any inaccuracies although there are negatives, then it will take some time for those to be removed, usually seven years with the following exceptions:
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Your aim is to remove negative items from your credit report and at times it takes more than 1 dispute to achieve this end. So brace yourself, be persistent without being nasty. REMEMBER to change your reason everytime as you’re more likely to hit on the right note and get it deleted. Summary of points to remember:
Once the credit report dispute has been filed, the bureau in question is required to investigate it within 30 days. Ensure that all inaccuracies are corrected.
For instance, if your account shows transaction by someone else, they should all be deleted and all incomplete items must be completed. An example of an incomplete items is if late payments are logged earlier but the report does not show that you are no longer delinquent.
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I can stress this enough. The reason why it’s important to document all your efforts is that like anything else, the negative item you have tried so hard to erase, can suddenly reappear!
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Now that you have examined and analyzed your report, it’s now time to correct any inaccuracies.
Credit bureas are required by law to correct any inaccuracies. If an item on your credit report is incomplete, they have to complete it. If there are transactions on there that you did not make, they must be deleted. So
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