Lengthy process: Clearing Credit Report

Credit repair is a process which helps in eliminating problematic factors from your credit report. This will help your credit report to be error free. This will hence make you creditworthy.

A person’s credit report is generally known as his credit file. The credit file contains the overall history of the credits taken by him in his entire life span. It provides information regarding number of accounts, late payments, overdue accounts, and also accounts that have been written off.

It is generally said that “Making mistakes is easy but correcting the same is a difficult task.” The same applies in case of your credit file. Mistakes such as making late payments, having overdue accounts etc. will make a negative mark on your credit report, but to remove the same mistakes from your credit report and making the report clean is a difficult task and will take time.

There can be instances that some accounts can be reported in your name which you have never applied for. These types of errors can have a negative impact on your credit report and will lead your credit score to sink.

Once you identify the errors in your report and you remove those errors from your report you will notice that your score has not increased. If you have an active trade line, then your score will increase, if not your score will remain the same.

So it is important that you have an active trade line to increase your score. Only removing errors and cleaning your credit report will not improve your score. There are also other factors that will improve your score for example having different types of credit, paying dues on time, and many more factors.

Checking your credit report frequently will help you identify errors in your report and will help you to identify factors that will improve your score.

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