Credit Laws

Some Straight Talk About Credit Repair Laws

On the grand scale the consumer credit economy of the USA has provided more personal comfort and material benefits to more people than any economic system in history. The percentage of people who own their own homes, the number of cars per family, TVs per household, electrical appliances and even the normalization of luxury goods are a testament to the system. On a macro level, it works!

One reason the credit economy works is because business corporations like Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion constantly gather credit information on hundreds of millions of individuals into credit reports, and using sophisticated mathematical and statistical models process those billions of bits of data into a three digit credit score that lenders use to make instant credit decisions about each of those individuals.

If only because of the massive number of people and the mountains of data involved in the credit gathering and reporting process mistakes are unavoidable. Mistakes are expected. They are part of the system - and in fact the system would breakdown if 100% accuracy, if it's even possible, were required.

The main credit repair laws, The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and a 2003 amendment, the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), were created to give individuals a legal process to fix these mistakes and not have their opportunity at a decent life chewed up by this overwhelming machine.

Unfortunately, many consumers have the impression there is nothing they can do to change the information on their credit reports. This is not true. Federal credit law gives you the right to have misinformation on your credit reports corrected or deleted entirely from your credit file. You are the watchdog of your own credit history - the person ultimately responsible for assuring that your credit report is an accurate representation of your credit history.

FCRA gives you the right to contact credit bureaus directly and dispute items on your credit reports. You can dispute any and all items that are inaccurate, untimely, misleading, biased, incomplete or unverifiable (questionable items). If the bureaus cannot verify that the information on their reports is 100% correct, then those items must be deleted from your credit report. That is the law.

Disputing items on your credit report should be easy, but the credit reporting companies and the creditors treat consumers like a nuisance. As a result, most consumers give up when they hit the first obstacle, long before they ever see results. Let's fact it. Who has the time to study relevant credit repair laws and formulate a statute-based plan of attack?

Defending your credit rights since 1991, Lexington Law, the country's biggest credit repair law firm, has the knowledge and experience needed to help you fix the questionable items in your credit report. From bankruptcies to charge-offs to tax liens, Lexington Law credit repair lawyers have successfully challenged virtually every credit problem under the sun-and deleted over 600,000 items from its clients' credit reports in 2007 alone. That's more than 50,000 negative items deleted from consumers' credit reports each and every month.

Lexington Law has become the trusted leader in credit report repair because they believe in the credit repair law and are committed to their clients' success. That, coupled with knowledge and years of experience in the credit repair field, has led to Lexington Law to achieve amazing results for thousands who have good credit who never thought they could.