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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Credit Bureau?
Credit bureaus track personal, financial and credit information on individuals. This includes information taken from public records, personal identification and debt information. With the exception of back child support payments, creditors supply information on a voluntary basis. Credit bureaus are strictly private 'for profit' entities, and are not government institutions.
How many are there?

There are 3 major credit bureaus: EQUIFAX, EXPERIAN (formerly TRW), and TRANSUNION.
(Click here for the Credit Bureau addresses).
Are all 3 important?
The three (3) major credit bureaus pass information to additional minor or less well known credit bureaus. Each major credit bureau therefore will cover at least one-third of your total credit history. And even though your credit report may display the name of an otherwise unknown small credit bureau, the fine print will show a major credit bureau is ultimately supplying the information.
How long does information remain on my report?
Credit bureaus report credit information for a period of seven (7) years. Some states have special provisions for collections and paid liens. Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 bankruptcies are each reported for 10 years and Chapter 13 bankruptcy is reported for 10 years. Both are measured from the date of the filing.
Why do Credit Bureaus not want me to use a Credit Repair Company?
Credit Bureaus will tell you that it is easier and less expensive to do it yourself. While it may be true that you have the right to repair your credit yourself, many individuals do not have the time, experience, and organizational savvy necessary to deal with bureaucracies. You must also spend hours of study to gain a working knowledge of the consumer laws available to you. Many who start repairing their credit turn to a credit repair company after months of work.
How long will it take for me to repair my own credit?
There is no definite answer because it depends on your initial credit status, your dedication to review your credit report and prepare letters to each of your creditors, and how long it takes you to leanr your credit rights by familiarizing yourself with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). You must remain organized and effectively draft your correspondence to the proper creditor. This process can easily take over a year of diligent work...or you can hire Texas Certified Credit Repair, LLC, to work proactively on your behalf.
How long would it take Texas Certified Credit Repair, LLC, to repair my credit?
Again, there is no definite answer. There are only definite advantages as the time varies depending on the initial credit status of each customer. Using Texas Certified Credit Repair, LLC, eliminates the time invested in learning credit laws and drafting correspondence for the paper chase with your creditors. It frees you from crafting carefully worded correspondence and following each dispute. Creditors will be less inclined to view a credit challenge from a recognized credit repair company as frivolous or unfounded. On average, it takes between three to eight months. Depending on your situation, it may take as little as three months, or up to six months or more, for Texas Certified Credit Repair, LLC, to repair your credit.
Can I get credit cards while repairing my credit?
Yes, you are able to apply for credit cards while repairing your credit, but you should take care to make sure that you do indeed get approved for any credit you request. Remember, even mere inquiries from prospective lenders are treated as negative credit data. Find out what the lending institution's criteria is for granting the credit card or loan you want before submitting the application and make sure that you fit and can meet their criteria. If not, you should NOT apply, as it will only add negative credit information to your credit history.
Does paying off my bills repair my credit?
You would think that would be true but, again, the credit reporting system just doesn't work that way. When you pay an old debt, the negative credit listing doesn't disappear. In fact, it re-ages and the seven-year clock begins again with that negative listing. AND, the most ironic thing is that a paid, current negative listing is not any better than an unpaid negative listing. That's not always true, but in most cases, you won't get much further by paying the old debt. The good news is that we can help you settle those debts and save you alot of money in the process.
What can I do if I have no credit at all (good or bad)?
In that case, a credit repair service may not be the best thing for you. Lenders are typiclly more amenable toward extending credit to persons with no credit history than to persons with a history of bad credit A steady source of income, money in a bank account, or a relative willing to cosign your credit application may be all you need.
How does a credit bureau make money?

A credit bureau is a commercial business. It makes money by selling your credit report to others. A person with bad credit means more business for them as such a person applies for credit about ten (10) times more than a person with good credit.
Who can see my credit report?
Anyone who wants information for a business transaction between you and them may obtain your credit report. This may include an insurance company, a prospective landlord, or prospective employer, a collector, or a government official.
Why should I use a credit repair company?
The most common reasons are that individuals either have already tried themselves and obtained limited results, or they just don't have the time to undertake this task. If you decide to use us, you can be assured that you will be receiving the best assistance and service possible.
How do you restore bad credit?
As part of your service with Texas Certified Credit Repair, LLC, for credit restoration services, we will evaluate your credit report. This will tell us which items on your credit report we need to challenge. Any credit listings showing up on the credit report which you advise us are assumed to be inaccurate or unverifiable will be subjected to a dispute. Once we've received your credit reports, we will construct letters of dispute in your name. These letters are specifically designed to communicate your dispute in such a way that creditors will be more likely to accept the dispute and conduct an investigation of the disputed item in question.
While this may sound easy, any person who has attempted to dispute their own credit will tell you otherwise. According to federal law, creditors can ignore your dispute under a variety of conditions. In our experience, a large percentage of dispute letters are sent directly from consumers are rejected under one credit bureau pretext or another.
At the conclusion of the creditor's investigation, a new copy of your credit report will be sent to your address showing any deletions or improvements as a result of Texas Certified Credit Repair, LLC's services. You then copy and send us the new credit report and the cycle repeats itself at timed intervals.
A disputed credit listing must be accurate and verifiable for it to remain on the credit report. If the credit listing is only somewhat inaccurate, the credit bureaus may simply change the item to correct the inaccuracies. Very often, though, disputed credit items cannot be verified: the creditor either no longer possesses the information or does not wish to go to the trouble of verifying it. Also, the reinvestigation must be completed within 30 days or the listing must be removed. For these reasons, properly disputed credit listings are removed with remarkable frequency. Each time an investigation is commenced, the odds of receiving a particular deletion increases.
How does Texas Certified Credit Repair, LLC, do this legally?
Disputing your credit report is your right. Credit restoration is as legal as pleading "not guilty" in a court of law.
What if deleted items reappear on my credit report?
On occasion, a negative listing that was recently deleted will eventually be verified by the creditor. The Fair Credit Reporting Act requires that creditors inform you of reinstatement of a previously deleted listing. The FCRA also makes it more difficult for credit bureaus to re-report listings. Because of these factors, it is fairly rare for listings to come back on your credit history once they've been deleted. If an item is re-reported, it is a simple matter to challenge the listing again at a future time in order to press for a permanent deletion.
Do I need to see my credit reports first?
Most people visit this website after they have been denied credit. Most even know the specific nature of the negative listings appearing on their credit report. With this in mind, it is not necessary to know exactly what is appearing on the credit report before we begin work. It is only necessary to know that there is a credit history problem which needs to be addressed. One amazing thing about bad credit is that almost any small amount of bad credit will trigger universal credit denial. A little bad credit isn't much better than a lot of bad credit. So, if you believe that there might only be a couple of negative listings on your credit report, it still makes sense to hire Texas Certified Credit Repair, LLC, for the time it takes to remove those listings.
Disclaimer: None of the information contained on any of Texas Certified Credit Repair, LLC's web pages is meant to be legal service advice or a substitute thereof. We provide the information contained on these web pages comprising Texas Certified Credit Repair, LLC's website solely to assist you with our proven methods of restoring credit and getting negative, erroneous, incorrect, obsolete, and misleading information removed from your credit reports for the purpose of re-establishing your good credit. Texas Certified Credit Repair, LLC can even help you restore your credit after filing for bankruptcy. You can usually establish new credit within six months of the bankruptcy discharge. A bankruptcy will usually generate several entries on your credit report, and you (or your authorized agent) must be diligent to make sure that the post-bankruptcy credit history is addressed.
* The attorneys employed by Texas Certified Credit Repair, LLC, do not perform legal services as defined by the State Bar of Texas.