Questions & Answers
Why should I use IntelliCREDIT?
IntelliCREDIT has a proven track record
of producing Intelligent Credit Score
results quickly, privately and legally
with Fortune 500 Companies, Professional
Athletes, Celebrities and Thousands of
Americans. The technology that
IntelliCREDIT uses to produce consistent
results for our clients is the same
technology that has successfully deleted
over 1 ½ Million items!
IntelliCREDIT sets the standards in
consumer credit education and credit
correction. We leverage your legal
rights with our unparalleled experience
to engage the credit bureaus and your
individual creditors. With our combined
experience, innovative technology,
customized strategies, 24/7 Online
Results Accountability portal and our
genuine passion to help people succeed,
we produce accelerated results that
others simply fail to live up too.
If that was not good enough,
IntelliCREDIT also offers and
unprecedented 90 day 10 times your money
back guarantee! You can’t go wrong!
With IntelliCREDIT, you nothing to
lose and Everything to Gain!
Is
Credit Repair Legal?
First,
for anyone who says
Credit Repair is
illegal, the government passed the
"Credit Repair Organizations Act" in
1996. This Act sets the standards and
regulations for how credit repair
organizations can legally operate- Since
there is a law governing credit repair
companies, THIS - clearly Identifies
that Credit Repair is in FACT LEGAL.
Credit repair is legal, but some
companies are not. Lexington Law
provides the following fraud detection
guidelines to help you steer clear of
illegitimate credit repair companies.
What are your payment options?
We
accept payments by credit card, Visa and
MasterCard bank debit cards or by
automatic electronic draft from your
checking or savings account.
What is an electronic transfer?
An
electronic transfer works just like
writing a check and using a debit card.
It is processed by using the bank
account number and routing number which
is located on every check and it is
processed electronically just like a
debit card or credit card. This
transaction will be documented on your
bank statement, just like all other
transactions.
Like a credit card,
this can be scheduled as a reoccurring
billing and is much more efficient.
How much does your credit repair
serviceability plan cost?
We have
developed a variety of serviceability
plans designed to meet a broad
difference in client wants, needs and
expectations. We have provided full
description in our Serviceability
section. Our plans start off as low as
$49.99 monthly and provide to aggressive
upgrades at $129.99 and $199.99.
How does the refund policy work?
Our
refund policy is the best offer in the
industry today. We offer a no risk 90
day money back guarantee that is simple
and bold: If we agree to accept your
business and after 90 days we have not
produced any results we will not only
refund your money but we will give you
ten times your money back. You can see
clearly that you have nothing to lose
and everything to gain. Terms and
conditions apply as outlined in your
serviceability agreement.
Why do you
charge a monthly fee verses charging by
the work load?
We have learned
from our historical data what we can
expect in the big picture. Charging by
deletion is great but it does not
provide a consistent budget for our
clients. For example: If we charged $35
per deleted item and in one month you
had great bureau results and had 15
items deleted from your credit report,
you would owe us $525. The next month
you only had one deleted item and owed
$35. This becomes very difficult to plan
for and can create financial stress for
our clients, which is the complete
opposite of what we are working to
accomplish. We know that through the
process eventually everything balances
out. We take the risk because if you
achieved maximum results in your early
months of service, we will not be
compensated for the full service
provided. We do believe you will refer
us many other clients and this will
relationship will also work out in the
end.
Is there any discounts for
couples or your significant?
Yes,
we offer a $59 discount when both sign
up together.
When are payments
debited or transferred?
You have
complete control and decide when your
payment will be taken. Your FICO score
optimization & credit analysis work is
completed before this fee is charged to
the payment method you chose.
Your monthly payments will then be
drafted each month after work has been
completed. The original date you
selected will be the date used to
schedule your monthly serviceability
plan. We will schedule and complete all
work on your behalf prior to that date.
You do have the ability to change your
scheduled payment date by calling (800)
111-1111 our office with a 5 business
day notice and request a change to that
date. This request requires a $5.00 fee
Can I cancel your credit repair
service at any time?
Yes, we offer a
no risk-hassle free cancellation policy
that allows you to cancel for any reason
with a 5 business day notice. You can
cancel your serviceability plan at any
time by calling (800) 111-1111.
What happens if don’t have the money for
my payment?
Our policy when a
payment is returned unpaid is to attempt
to collect the payment throughout the
time period before your next letter work
and action is completed. We charge a
$15.00 late fee for each late payment.
When your next round of dispute letters
are due and there is still no payment
received, your account will be put into
a hold status until your payments are
caught up and we will then resume
working on your behalf. There is an
additional $10.00 charged as a
reactivation fee when an account is
placed on hold.
Can negative items be
removed?
This depends on the
circumstances with each item. Our Credit
Analysis service will help you identify
whether a negative item is inaccurate,
unverifiable, misleading, untimely,
unclear, ambiguous, or incomplete and
can be legally disputed and/or removed.
There are additional client rights that
allow you to contact your creditors
directly and validate the negative item
information which can result in having
it removed from your reports.
What
is accurate?
Accurate is 100% free
from error, and is in no way unclear,
ambiguous, untimely, incomplete, or
misleading.
What is verifiable?
Verifiable simply means that credit
information can be verified with the
creditor. If a creditor is unwilling,
unable, or unavailable to verify that a
credit item is accurate and timely, it
must be removed.
Who decides is the
item on your credit report is
questionable?
You do. There are
several fields of information reported
on your report, name, balance, high
credit, date of last transaction,
account number, etc. All of this
information is required to be reporting
accurately. We will walk you through the
credit report Analysis and Audit
designed to identify any mistakes or
questionable items. You are the only one
who knows the details of your credit
profile are 100% accurate, timely or
questionable.
Can accurate items
really be removed?
If you believe
that a negative credit item is 100%
accurate and timely, you do not have the
grounds to question this item with
bureaus. At this point the bureaus will
utilize the “Up-To 7-10 years” time
period before they will remove the
negative item.
However, just
because an item cannot be questioned
with credit bureaus does not mean it
cannot be removed from your credit
reports.
The original creditor
and/or collection agencies can agree to
revise or remove furnished information
whenever they want. With this in mind,
you have a number of rights when it
comes to dealing with your creditors and
this can result in a removal or
deletion.
IntelliCREDIT offers
additional strategic tactics designed to
be more aggressive and will attack this
scenario head on. Ask us how we can help
you.
Can negative credit items be
legally removed?
You have the legal
right to have an accurate, timely and
verifiable credit report. If information
recorded on your credit reports does not
accurately represent you fairly and
accurately, then you have the right to
request that questionable information be
removed from your reports. The Fair
Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Fair Credit
Billing Act (FCBA) and the fair Debt
Collections Practices Act (FDCPA) afford
you the legal right to dispute
inaccurate items on your credit reports
with the credit bureaus as well as your
creditors.
When you dispute a
questionable negative credit item with
the credit bureaus, you are demanding
that they perform an investigation to
determine whether or not the item should
be listed on your credit reports. If the
credit bureau cannot verify the accuracy
of the item, then they are required to
correct the listing or completely delete
it from your credit report.
You
also have the option of working with
your creditors to remove the negative
items from your credit reports. Your
creditors have the ability to delete
negative items from your credit reports
whenever they chose. This process can
sometimes produce better results than
dealing with the credit bureaus.
IntelliCREDIT offers additional
strategic tactics designed to be more
aggressive and will attack this scenario
head on. Ask us how we can help you.
How long does credit repair take?
There are many moving components which
make it impossible to commit too or
promise a specific time frame. We do
have historical data that we can share
with you once we have completed a credit
report analysis report with you. Every
credit report is like a fingerprint, it
is uniquely different and this is why we
need to perform an analysis and/or audit
on your report and discuss all of this
information with you. After all, you are
the only one that has the real knowledge
required to determine whether or not any
negative item on your report is
questionable.
It is very
important to point out here that every
client does have responsibility in the
process and results. You will be
required to pay your bills on time, to
not apply for any new credit lines
without consulting IntelliCREDIT first,
control credit spending that affects
your debt to income ration and to send
in all bureau correspondence immediately
upon receipt
Can I pay you more
to achieve faster and even better
results?
IntelliCREDIT has designed
several programs so we can deliver
exceptional results to every client,
regardless of their needs, goals and
financial position. Our base plan of
$49.99 offers proven results and is a
common favorite. However, for those who
desire a more aggressive plan, we offer
upgrades that will accelerate potential
performance due to increased activity
with not just the credit bureaus but the
original creditor or collection agencies
as well. These upgrades are significant
in the work required and the cost is
equal to the results our clients have
received.
We find it interesting
that some credit repair companies and
some online credit repair law firms
offer upgrade services for only an
additional $20 or $40 monthly. Think
about it, for $20, just how much more
aggressive can a company afford to be?
Ask the right questions. If you really
want a truly aggressive and
all-inclusive upgrade, this requires
additional costs, man hours and efforts.
With IntelliCREDIT, you get a straight
forward-real-deal approach. We care
about the satisfaction of every client
and pride ourselves on the quality we
provide in service and the results we
accomplish on their behalf.
Is it
possible for deleted items to show up
again later on my credit report?
On occasion, a negative item that has
been deleted may later verified by the
creditor. The fair Credit Reporting Act
requires that you are informed before
the item shows up again. The FCRA does
makes it difficult for credit bureaus to
repost a previously deleted item. This
works in your favor and as a result it
is extremely rare for deleted items to
return
IntelliCREDIT is dedicated to
quality performance and will assist
every client in achieving permanent
deletion of all accurate, timely and
verifiable information if it reappears.
Does paying my old debt off restore
my credit?
Common sense would
lead you to believe that the answer is
yes. However, in this circumstance ,
that is not correct.
When you pay
an old debt, the negative credit listing
doesn't disappear. Typically the only
thing that changes is the balance owed
field and this has absolutely nothing to
do with your score. In fact, it is not
uncommon for the bureaus to “update your
date of last activity” and if the old
debt is updated by the date, this will
actually lower your credit score. No
reward for being financially
responsible!
IntelliCREDIT will help
you whenever you have an old debt that
you believe is accurate and fair in the
negotiations of that payoff. If properly
done, there are process strategies that
will provide you with the tools to
achieve permanent deletion.
It is
extremely important that you continue to
pay all current debt on time every
month.
What if I have never seen
my credit report?
We understand
that most people have never seen a copy
of their credit report. Creditors have
been trained to not share the report
with you because they are not trained to
explain it to you and it is a better
time
management tool to just say no.
Because of this ridicules problem, most
people most people have no idea
what
questionable negative items are listed
on their credit reports.
IntelliCREDIT will walk you through your
complete credit report during our credit
report analysis and information audit
and educate you on all of your legal
rights. This provides you with knowledge
and knowledge is power.
Do you
guarantee your credit repair service?
It is important to understand there
we cannot guarantee specific results or
time periods. We are, however, so
confident in our historical data that we
do offer an unprecedented 90 day 10
times your money back guarantee for no
performance. It is important to
understand that when we conduct the
credit report analysis and information
audit, we are able to determine whether
or not we can truly help you. If we
can’t help you, we do not want to waste
your time or ours and we will inform you
that we cannot help you up front without
this ever costing you a single dime.
With all of this in mind, this is how we
feel so confident in our performance
guarantee and if we are wrong and do not
get results on your behalf, we would
rather lose money than have a
disappointed client.
There are
some credit repair companies and online
credit repair law firms that do not
offer any performance guarantee. We
believe this speaks for itself. If you
are not confident in your ability to
identify clients that you
can really
help as well as the results you can
achieve on their behalf, then those
companies and law firm would be crazy to
offer a performance guarantee.
Can I repair my own credit?
Yes.
You have the legal right to represent
yourself with the credit bureaus,
creditors, collection agencies, court
clerks, government officials and anyone
that can be involved in your pursuit of
fair, accurate and timely credit
reporting. This extremely complicated
and frustrating process can prove to be
stressful and overwhelming.
The
reason we hire trained mechanics,
physicians, and accountants is because
they have the knowledge, expertise and
experience to produce much higher
quality levels of results than we could
ever hope to have on our own.
Most
of us doesn’t even like to read a basic
instruction manual for assembly of a
bike, TV stand or
book case. These in
comparison are miniscule in comparison
to the bureaucratic red tape and
complicated
laws assembled by several
Federal Acts.
If you devoted the
next year of your life to learning the
credit reporting process and how your
legal rights can be effectively applied,
you would still most likely only know
and understand a fraction of what
IntelliCREDIT has learned.
We have
learned that even if we provide most
people with all of the tools required to
achieve great results,
they still
ultimately return after becoming very
frustrated and feeling defeated because
the process is not just about sending
letters. It is about being organized,
tenacious, understanding not only your
legal rights but more importantly, when
to activate and use them. The list of
advantages goes on and on.
If you
don’t feel that we can help you or just
can’t afford any additional expenses in
your current financial state, we want to
encourage you to invest the time, no
matter how much time this takes, and
become educated enough to exercise your
rights and fight your way out of the
Credit Prison you may be in as well as
the
financial trap that most likely has
you handcuffed.
If you don’t get help
with IntelliCREDIT, you owe it to
yourself to get help in any way you can.
It is that important and becoming more
important every single day.
How
do I get updates on my results?
As we assist you in the process to
improve your credit, the credit bureaus
will only send updated copies
of your correspondence updates and new
credit reports directly to you at your
listed home residence. When you receive
these updates and new reports it is very
important that you provide us with a
copy immediately. We will update your
online accountability portal and you
will be able to see graphs, charts and
all pertinent information in an easy to
understand format and track you’re
results.
What is the easiest way
to get my credit reports to you?
Mail or scanning is by far the most
preferred method. Some clients want to
fax but due to the inconsistency
of fax machines and the quality of the
copy, we have learned that this usually
creates more frustration and
stress than it is worth. It is better to
wait a couple of days for the mail or to
invest less than $99 and purchase
a scanning tool that you will be able to
use for so many other projects, that
once you have a scanner, you
won’t want to live without one.
We
will work with you no matter what your
circumstances are, after all, you’re
satisfaction and timely results are the
most important thing.
Just
be prepared for multiple fax attempts
and please do not get upset with our
receiving credit advisors
as they request new or additional
copies.
How long has
IntelliCREDIT been involved in credit
report repair?
IntelliCREDIT has a combined history
of over thirty (30) years experience in
servicing client’s credit report repair
requests. The technology we utilize is
the same technology that has resulted
over 1 ½ Million successful deletions on
behalf of the clients served.
Most
credit repair companies that are
considered successful have only achieved
a fraction of these results.
With
that said, IntelliCREDIT has experience
second to none. We understand and know
what it takes to achieve results for
each and every client. A proven track
record is critical in the credit repair
industry.
CREDIT REPORTS
What is a credit report?
Your credit
reports are a record of your credit
history that is maintained by the credit
reporting agencies.
Whenever you
apply for credit or financing, a credit
report is usually pulled from at least
one of the three major
credit bureaus. There are many credit
bureaus in America; however, the “Big
Three” most common credit bureaus are
Experian, Trans Union or Equifax.
All US credit bureaus collect and
maintain information on Americans. Most
people are surprised to learn that the
credit bureaus are not affiliated with
the government in any way. The credit
bureaus are for-profit companies whose
principal work product is the
compilation of information known as a
"credit report." The credit bureaus
generate their profits by selling the
personal information in your credit
reports to credit grantors, potential
employers and even back to you.
The credit bureaus receive your personal
information through the same lenders who
grant you credit.
They have agreements with each of these
credit grantors that require the credit
grantor to inform the credit bureaus of
everything that occurs in your
relationship with the credit grantor. If
you make a payment late, the negative
credit listing is quickly reported to at
least one of the three major credit
bureaus and is added to your credit
history.
The credit bureaus
collect this information, list it on
your credit report, and then sell it to
other credit grantors who wish to see
your credit history before they decide
to lend you money. The credit grantors
who review your credit are
especially interested in any negative
credit. If you have shown any tendency
to pay late, or to disregard your
financial commitments in the past, the
creditors will likely reject your
application or charge a higher interest
rate.
It is important to note
that your credit reports are not just a
record of how you are currently managing
your credit accounts. Credit reports are
histories of everything you are doing
with your credit now and what you have
done in the past seven to ten years.
What kind of information
appears on a credit report?
Aside
from your personal information such as
your name, address and employer, your
credit reports contain four categories
of listings that are used to generate
your credit score.
Merchant Trade
Lines
These include all regular
credit lines such as department store
cards, auto loans, mortgages, and credit
cards. If there is any
history of late payments, or if the
trade line was included in bankruptcy,
charge offs, or put into repossession,
the listing will be considered negative
by all credit grantors.
Collection Accounts
When an account is referred to
collections because of delinquency or
because of a bad check, this appears on
the credit report as a collection
accounts. Collection accounts can appear
as paid or unpaid accounts. Any type of
collection account, whether paid or not,
is considered very negative by all
credit grantors.
Court Records
Court records include bankruptcies,
judgments, liens, divorce, satisfied
judgments, and satisfied liens. All
court records, including satisfactions,
are considered negative by all credit
grantors.
Inquiries
Every time
a potential credit grantor looks at your
credit file, a credit inquiry appears on
at least one of your credit bureau
reports. If the numbers of inquiries are
few over the last two years, then there
may be no negative effect on your credit
worthiness. However, if there are many
recent inquiries showing on your credit
report, credit grantors may become
nervous and deny you credit.
How
long do negative items stay on a credit
report?
The Fair Credit Reporting
Act requires that most negative credit
items remain on your credit bureau file
for up to seven years, except for
bankruptcy, which can be reported for up
to ten years and in rare cases even
longer. Inquiries may remain on a credit
report for up to two years.
CREDIT
Can credit repair companies be
trusted?
In every industry, there are
companies that can be trusted and there
are companies that can’t.
You need
to always review and check out the
company that you are considering doing
business with, just as you would be
careful about an accountant and the
overall qualifications required to keep
you protected and insure as well as
secure and protect the information you
provide while providing educational
advise that will navigate you with the
very best results that effect you’re
future.
While some credit repair
companies are outright frauds!
Among
these frauds, are numerous "credit
repair" companies who claim to remove
negative credit with no explanation or a
legally supported value system. These
claims are like; "Bankruptcy, tax liens,
judgments... no problem… One hundred
percent guaranteed… Credit report 100%
cleared in 30 days…these are HUGE RED
FLAGS and should be avoided at all
costs.
There are others that operate
with integrity and the client’s best
interest in mind. This discovery is
crucial to your overall success. You
have now found that company!
So, can
legitimate credit repair companies
really guarantee results?
Absolutely! When you are dealing with a
company that has a proven system and a
successful, historical results, oriented
system, there are incredible
accomplishments that can be achieved.
No credit repair company is so good that
it can guarantee a specific outcome,
score or timeframe.
This is illegal!
In fact, the mere suggestion that a
credit repair organization can
"guarantee" its results is a direct
violation of the Credit Repair
Organizations Act. Any company
guaranteeing its results should not be
trusted — if they ignore the governing
laws of the industry, you can be sure
that they won't protect you and your
best interest and as a result, they
won’t be around for very long.
Guarantees are a sure sign of credit
repair fraud.
You have and are
entitled to legal rights. Most people do
not know or understand that they have
rights and simply believe the propaganda
that is perpetrated from the credit
bureaus, creditors and collection
agencies.
You do have rights!
However you decide to address your
credit challenges, realize that
regardless of what you may hear in the
news media, thousands before you have
sought help and restored their credit.
Despite the newspaper articles, TV
reports and other credit bureau
propaganda to the contrary, the simple
truth remains: you can work to fix your
unfair credit reports if they are the
result of inaccurate, untimely,
misleading, biased, incomplete or
unverifiable information.
How
much does bad credit cost?
As you
consider IntelliCREDIT as your advocate
partner, you should consider the price
you are already paying for
bad credit.
Please review the below examples and how
bad credit
can cost thousands.
Credit Cards
Most true
credit
cards are entirely out of reach to
consumers with bad credit. The few
(sub-prime) credit cards that are
available to them usually require high
setup fees or recurring monthly fees,
offer very low credit lines, usually
require cash deposits, and in most cases
do not even report your positive credit
activity to the credit bureaus. A
complete waste of time!
Automobile Financing
If you are
making payments on a car, you are
probably paying 10%, 15%, 19% and even
24% just for having bad credit. This
added interest shows up every month in a
higher payment. Take a look. The cost is ridicules!
$20,000 car paid over 5 years:
|
CREDIT STATUS
|
RATE
|
PAYMENT
|
COST OF BAD CREDIT
|
Perfect Mildly Damaged
Damaged
|
6.768% 9.738% 14.7295%
|
$394 $422 $473
|
$0.00 $1,680 $4,740
|
Home
Mortgage
Bad credit in auto
financing can really hurt, but it is
nothing compared to the cost of bad
credit when a home is involved. A
typical home can cost between $50,000
and 280,000. The interest is a direct
result of your credit score and
financial stability. The average U.S.
home value is currently $166,000.00.
$100,000 home paid over 30 years:
|
CREDIT STATUS
|
RATE
|
PAYMENT
|
COST OF BAD CREDIT
|
Perfect Mildly Damaged
Damaged
|
6.4065% 7.581%
12.5015%
|
$626 $705 $1,067
|
$0.00 $10,440 $158,760
|
Are items such as
bankruptcies and foreclosures impossible
to remove or correct?
There is
not one type of questionable listing
that cannot be removed from a credit
report if it is inaccurate, untimely,
misleading, biased, or incomplete. While
negative items such as bankruptcies or
unpaid debts are more difficult to
remove from your credit reports, this
has more to do with the identified
importance of the credit line item. For
example, bankruptcies, foreclosures,
judgments and tax liens.
Can a
bankruptcy wipe the slate clean?
A bankruptcy may help you take control
of your debts and get a second chance on
better managing your finances. This does
not help clean up your credit reports..
Many bankruptcy attorneys apparently
do not adequately understand or explain
the effects of bankruptcy to their
clients. Most Attorneys are more
concerned about their “Income”. Simply
Stated, bankruptcy is to the credit
rating that the nuclear bomb is to war.
It may end the war, but it leaves a huge
mess.
When you file for bankruptcy,
every credit account that you decide to
include in bankruptcy will become an
"included in bankruptcy" account (a
seriously negative item).
Additionally, a bankruptcy filing and
bankruptcy discharge listing will appear
in the court records section of your
credit report. Because so many negative
items are attached to the bankruptcy, it
becomes very difficult to remove all
trace of the bad credit.
Does
the 100 word statement on the credit
report help?
The Fair Credit
Reporting Act gives consumers the right
to add a brief statement to their credit
reports explaining disputed items. Our
experience has shown that these
statements are useless, confusing and
more importantly, damaging to the credit
reporting scoring system.
Many
misinformed credit experts suggest using
this statement to explain your side of
the story when a negative item on your
credit reports is lowering your credit
score. Unfortunately, because human eyes
rarely read through the details of your
credit reports, this explanation most
likely will have zero effect on a
creditor's opinion of your
creditworthiness.
Even worse,
when you add a statement on your credit
reports such as "these payments were
only late because there was a problem
with the company's automatic withdrawal
system", it can be interpreted as an
admission of guilt. If you try to
dispute the item in the future, the
credit bureau will not need to bother
contacting the credit grantor to
determine the accuracy of the negative
item because your credit statement
already admits you were late in making
the payment.
Because of their
ability to hinder your credit repair
efforts, we suggest making a 100 word
statement should be the first things you
delete from your credit file.
Do
negative items have to remain listed for
7 years?
Most Americans think
that most negative credit items remain
on your credit report for 7 or more
years.
The FACT is that there is
absolutely no laws, what-so-ever, that
demand any minimum required time periods
for negative listed items to be reported
on your credit reports. When you speak
with certain creditors, their typically
under-educated staff may tell you that
the law demands that negative listings
appear on your credit report for seven
to ten years. Another example of the
“Propaganda Information”
we are
forced to accept.
The truth is
that the credit grantor or the credit
bureau can choose to delete the negative
credit listing at any time, especially
when you have given them a reason to do
so. The 7-10 year term is merely a time
limit for reporting negative credit.
Some items, like bankruptcies, may
remain on a report for longer periods of
time, such as 10 years.
What is
the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)?
Below is a summary of the FCRA. The full
Act can be obtained directly from the
Federal Trade Commission's web site..
Fair Credit Reporting Act
Public Law 91-508
The Fair Credit
Reporting Act (FCRA) allows a consumer
to challenge the information on theirs
credit report on the basis of
"completeness and accuracy." If, after a
reinvestigation by the credit bureau,
the disputed information "is found to be
inaccurate or can no longer be verified,
the credit bureaus(s) shall promptly
delete such information."
The
credit bureaus are required to complete
the investigation within a "reasonable
period of time." This period has been
set at thirty days.
The credit
bureaus can ignore the consumer dispute
if they have reason to believe that the
dispute is "frivolous or irrelevant."
The FTC commentary on the FCRA cites, as
an example of a frivolous dispute, a
dispute wherein the consumer challenges
all negative items on his credit report
without providing any allegations
regarding specific items in the credit
file. However, "A credit bureau must
assume a consumer's dispute is accurate
and correct, unless there is clear and
convincing evidence to the contrary."
When a consumer challenges a credit
listing on the basis of extenuating
circumstances, such as health problems,
divorce, job loss, etc., the credit
bureaus may decide to ignore that
dispute as frivolous.
When a
consumer submits a dispute, which is
neither frivolous nor irrelevant by
credit bureau standards, the credit
bureau must validate the accuracy of the
information which requires verification
from the original sources or other
reliable sources of the disputed
information and inform them of the
nature of the consumer's dispute.
Your credit report is requires it to be
an accurate, timely and verifiable.
This is a roadmap that creditors use to
determine your credit risk.
Because errors in the credit reporting
system can impact the accuracy of your
credit reports, you have the right to
repair these inaccurate, outdated,
questionable negative credit items.
How can I tell if a company is
legitimate?
The FTC Warns against
Credit Repair Scams and offers advice on
how to avoid them.
The Federal Trade
Commission (FTC) is responsible for
enforcing consumer protection laws in
the United States. The FTC offers
ongoing suggestions and warnings to
consumers regarding credit repair
companies. Some of the top listed
warnings are listed below.
1. Beware
of credit repair companies that request
to be paid in full in advance.
2. Beware of credit repair companies
that suggest you obtain "new"
identities.
3. Beware of credit
repair companies that don't disclose
your legal rights.
Can Credit Repair Companies
charge up-front?
IntelliCREDIT
will never charge you in advance for any
work performed. We will perform all
identified work and will charge you
after that work have been completed.
Can I just get a new identity?
IntelliCREDIT will never advice you to
break any laws, like obtaining a new
identity Social Security number or to
hide behind a corporate veil which is
assigned an Employer Identification
number. There is always a right way to
do things and the right way will always
pay off in spades in the long run.
People who attempt to find the easy way
out are seldom successful and the
consequences far out way the risk.
Please read our article, titled “Credit
Prison”.
Are Credit Repair companies
the only one who can work on my credit
report?
It is important to
know that every person has the legal
right to attempt the credit repair
process on their own. This is the same
rights you have to attempt automotive
repair, represent yourself in front of a
court of law and even work on your own
plumbing, however, we all know that if
we truly want to get the very best
results, it is important to hire an
experienced, proven professional. When
you sign up with the
IntelliCREDIT
services, we provide you a copy of your
legal rights as well as full access to
our credit repair resource library for
further and ongoing education options.
We will utilize our complete arsenal of
resources, experience and custom
strategies on your behalf, which will
eliminate your own personal learning
curves and accelerate your results
process. We provide a wide range of
budget options designed to meet your
individual needs.
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