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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye
Having a high credit score is important whenever you are trying to get a new loan for a car or maybe a house. Most lenders will look at your credit score
to determine when you are worthy of approving a loan for. Your credit report will show if you have been late on any payments to any loans you have or and credit cards. Your report will also show were you currently live and where you have lived in the past. It is crucial to have a high credit score but you also want to make sure that your the information on your credit report is accurate.
When a lender checks your credit report they ordinarily will get the report from the three main agencies, Equifax, Experian and Transunion. It is important that you get your report from them at least once a year so you can check to make sure everything is accurate. The adept thing is that you are entitled to one free credit report every year for each agency so this makes it easy to keep track of.
If you detect that there are some things on your credit report that you do not agree with then you can file a complaint with the credit agencies and they then have to verify the info in question. They will contact the person who reported the information and by law they have 30 days to respond. If they do not respond then the item must be removed from your report.
Remember that if you are monitoring your credit report that you always make sure that it is accurate.
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