I wish someone would have told me when I was younger all the things that would affect my credit score, and how important that is!!! So here’s my story…I moved out of an apartment before my lease expired, and I was charged aproximately $5k, which was rent for the remainder of my lease. I didn’t pay it, so it went to collections and was reported to all 3 bureau’s. In addition to that, I had about $2k more debt (medical) that also went to collections. I recently took out an auto loan (against a truck I already own) to pay off this debt, plus some other expenses that came up without warning. So, how long will it take for my credit score to improve now that my debts are settled? I have 3 credit cards that are paid on time (in full) every month, and my auto loan will be paid on time every month. The only other credit history I have is an auto loan that is paid in full (all payments were made on time). Currently my credit score is 545, I would like to see it in the 600’s ASAP!

It normally can take about 6 months for your credit score to start improving, many credit reporting agencies take at least 30-90 days to get it reporting on your report as paid, also you want to make sure you get proof of the debt being paid after you paid it and you also want to make sure they report it to experian, transunion and equifax as a paid collection. Honestly collections can stay on your report for 7 years, however if they are paid it will increase your score in time. You can also pull a credit report for free once a year from all three agencies to keep tabs on your credit report and to make sure it’s all showing paid and it won’t ding your credit because YOU are who is pulling it.

my husband has 3 negative marks on his credit report, we tried to get in touch with the creditors and after what seemed like hours on hold, we finally got in touch, exchanged information and they said they would send over the bill, we’re still waiting and nothing has arrived so far. How do we fix our credit if the creditors won’t work with us? Is there a central agency or something where we can just pay off the debts and remove the bad marks off the report?

1. Never talk to a collection agency and/or creditor by phone. Only
in writing. Send them a validation letter if its a collection agency.
If its the original creditor, then maybe a pay for delete letter.
2. How old are these debts? If they are old, most likely the original
creditor has written these off or sold them to a collection agency.
3. Paying these old debts will actually hurt your credit, since it resets
the date of last activity.
4. You can do a simple dispute online as "No knowledge of account".
You will find that they will delete many times because its so old
the original creditor wont waste the time verifying it.
5. Fixing your credit is easy but time consuming. Visit the website
below. Its provides all the information you need to know to
repair your credit.

"PIGGY BACKING" is where a person with great credit adds an Authorized User or Secondary Card Holder to there account to give the credit history of the credit card to the added user. This adds high limit on revolving accounts and adds credit history length of time as well.

No, the way FICO calculates credit scores was changed back in September so that authorized user accounts were not taken into account as far as score goes.

This was due to the FTC being bombarded by request due to people buying trade lines so they could qualify for mortgages that they normally would not have.

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The first step to improving your credit score is to obtain a current copy of your credit report. Once you have something to work from, you’ll know where you stand and you can take action to improve your credit and raise your score.
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I have 1 open collection and 1 open judgement. My score is a 600 but I need at least a 620 to get a VA loan. How long will it take for my score to increase at least 20 points if I pay them both off? And what else I can do to improve my score over next next few months?

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i need to send a letter to equifax and transunion, stating that one collection i have is not mine but my moms.

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