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How To Delete Bad Credit From Your Credit Reports, Legally!

Tim Irish asked: It’s funny, you never hear any lunch room conversations about credit repair, or fixing bad credit, however there’s this huge population of consumers searching the Internet search engines looking specifically for those terms. For example, just a quick two minute query of a popular keyword tracker proved these daily search results:The term [...]

Posted December 27th, 2010 in Finance | Comments Off

Differences in the Credit Bureaus – Equifax, Experian, Transunion

Josh D Paul asked: Credit reporting agencies collect credit-related information and sell it to businesses and consumers. They are also commonly called credit bureaus in the United States.There are many of these agencies in the country, but the three main ones are Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. Most creditors and lenders will report their data to [...]

Posted November 29th, 2010 in Finance | Comments Off

Report Card for the Fair Credit Reporting Act

asked: Pedro

Posted July 19th, 2010 in Checking Services | Comments Off

Free Credit Reports – Are There Those By law?

Hector Milla asked: The government requires that the major credit reporting companies give you at least one free credit report every 12 months.This is governed by legislation, otherwise termed the Fair Credit Reporting act FCRA. These firms have a central website where you can go fill out your details and obtain your report immediately. There’s [...]

Posted April 10th, 2010 in Credit | Comments Off

Fair Credit Reporting Act?

US Cutie asked: Hi, I’m 22 years old and I don’t work (i’m an online student) and I live with my parents. 3 days ago I tried to open a basic bank account online(MyAccess Checking and Regular Saving), and they ask for minimum $25 for each and I paid them by my father’s Credit Card. [...]

Posted January 21st, 2010 in Law & Ethics | 2 Comments »

Key Differentiating Features of Free Credit Report Offers

Josh Paul asked: People need to retrieve their credit reports for a variety of reasons.  Most usually get them on the Internet.  This is simple to do with a quick Google search.  What might come as a surprise is the number of credit report offers, especially those marketing both free credit reports and scores.  It [...]

Posted December 7th, 2009 in Credit | Comments Off

What does reason 3 mean when Certegy won’t cash a check?

babies_happen asked: I went to walmart today to cash a $80 payroll check and was declined. I normally just deposit in my checking account but i recently closed it because i am moving in a couple days. Any way, they wouldnt cash it. they gave me a piece of paper with blah about check transaction [...]

Posted August 16th, 2009 in Personal Finance | 1 Comment »

Your Access To Free Credit Reports

Ben Cortese asked: The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) requires each of the nationwide consumer reporting companies – Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion – to provide you with a free copy of your credit report, at your request, once every 12 months.That’s right; you are entitled to receive one free credit report every 12 months from [...]

Posted August 2nd, 2009 in Finance | Comments Off