Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Remove Charge Offs And Improve Your FICO Score Overnight

By Karl Graus

Having a clean credit report in these market conditions is important. With the tightened up requirements for a new mortgage or loan, your credit score may be more important than ever. Now, we're going to examine how you can raise your FICO score almost overnight.

If you're looking at ways to improve credit, you must get charge offs removed from your credit report. Charge offs can have a real nasty effect on a FICO score. Long story short; you want them removed from your credit report. But if they are there, there is still hope of getting them off. This will improve your credit score and give you lower interest and monthly payments in return.

Getting charge offs removed starts with a copy of your credit report. Every calendar year, you get one copy of your credit report. This allows you to see what's on there.

It's not uncommon to see a mistake on your credit report. When you see an error, compose a real letter to the credit bureau. Don't try to save time and send an email, compose a real letter. With ink and a stamp. cross your fingers and hope you don't hear anything from the credit bureau, because if you don't, the charge is automatically dropped from your credit report. Another increase in your score!

Certainly, it's a lot of work for a small step. But that's what raising credit score is all about, one step at a time.. Just a small difference in interest for a mortgage can save you thousands and thousands of dollars over a few years. So be meticulous when doing your preparation.

Most people never really go over their reports. They take for granted that everything is reported fine. The truth is that there are many mistakes being made. You can remove charge offs and increase your credit score. You just have check your credit report, see if there are any mistakes on there and report them to the credit bureaus. In the next few years, you can save thousands of dollars just by doing this. - 15224

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