Common Lies to Expect From Credit Repair Companies


If you have declared bankruptcy, you can't get credit for ten years. This is a common lie that credit repair companies will tell you. The truth is you can start building a positive credit history as soon as your bankruptcy is discharged. While creditors will be cautious in dealing with you at first, you can slowly show your fiscal responsibility, and build a solid history that can lead lenders to view you as a good credit risk long before the bankruptcy is off of your history report.

Warning Signs of a Bad Credit Repair Company

As much as we want to believe that credit repair companies want to help out the underdog, many of them are unscrupulous on how they deal with them. They will lie and charge ridiculous fees and even out right fraud. Fortunately there are warning signs that you can see beforehand and recognize them. They are as follows:

Do not use any credit repair company that doesn't follow industry standards or regulations to the letter. To find out, go to your own state government website and check.

Do not use a credit repair company that claims to be able to completely wipe out or get rid of your bankruptcy; to remove accurate negative information from your credit history, or if they claim to be able to obtain credit for you no matter what your credit history states.

Do not use a credit repair company that promises to utilize some sort of secret or little known holes in the system as a way to help you to remove information from your credit history.

Do not use a credit repair company unless it easily gives you a written disclosure of your rights in relation to your credit history before they ask you to sign a contract. Any contract that you sign has to include all the terms and conditions of payment, a completely detailed description of the services they are giving you, including any guarantees of performance and an estimate of how long it will take for the contract to e completed. The agreement should also include a right to cancel the contract for at least three days, in case you have second thoughts.

Do not use a credit repair company that tries to charge money before it has actually done anything to fix your credit.

Do not use a credit repair company that tries to keep you from directly contacting the major credit bureaus on your own.