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It is easy to clean bad credit. In this article I will show you how.

Having bad credit can make it difficult and expensive to get an auto loan, mortgage, credit card or other credit. If you clean bad credit you will save money on these in interest and payments.

* The first portion of your credit to work on is your payments. Your payment history can do the most damage to your credit. If you are behind get caught up ASAP and keep caught up.

* By paying down your account balances, you can clean bad credit. Pay the newer accounts first before the older ones. The older accounts will have less impact on your report scores then the newer accounts will.

* Do not apply for new credit. Especially if you have current or recent bad credit. This will drive your credit score down.

* Creditors can change how the report is worded. Send them a letter asking them to change the wording. “Seriously Late” would be changed to “Slow Payment” and so on. Keeping in contact with creditors and staying in decent terms with them will go far in them working with you to assist you to clean bad credit.

Adhere to the above actions and be persistent and you can improve and clean bad credit report scores. It can require time but in the long run will save you on interest rates and payments. The other area you will need to take a look at is false or erroneous items on your report. These can often be reversed simply by sending letters as explained below and will also help clean bad credit.

* An erroneous entry to your credit happens often and can hurt your scores. If you notice any errors you need to make a copy of the report and highlight these. Send this with explanations to the credit agencies and to the account creditors. Send by registered or certified mail. They have forty five days to reply. If they do not, send them a letter and refer to section 602,4b of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Simply sending some letters can clean bad credit scores.

* A lot are intimidated by the creditors thinking the have complete records and can rebut their claim quickly. Actually a lot fail to keep good records. They are only kept for 13-18 months for a lot of the credit card institutes. And with all of the bank consolidations in past years, many of these companies failed to get the accounts from these companies. There is good opportunity to clean bad credit by mailing these.

* Section 611d states you are entitled for a corrected free report. If you do not receive one, send a letter.

Also you are allowed to add a one hundred word statement to your credit file. This would be a good way to explain why there are problem areas in your report, layoff, illness, etc. This is easy and free.

If you are diligent in taking care of your finances, be proactive on late payments, pay down accounts and dispute erroneous entries you can increase your scores. Allowing time and being diligent will go a long way in your effort to clean bad credit.

After losing his job, his car, and his home, Alex Nebwalz didn’t give up. He fought hard to regain his life and his credit. Now, after 2 1/2 years he has repositioned himself and talks about it at his website cleaningupcredit.netwhere he writes about how you can improve your credit report, getting your one time credit report, the poor credit auto loan and how to clear bad credit.

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