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www.ScoreMoreCredit.com – Credit expert, Brian Diez, reveals how to repair your credit by negotiating collections for deletion or settlement.

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I have a debt of 897.00 on my credit score that has been paid already, I need to build my credit to buy a car my credit score is 550 and I’m not planning on getting a credit card to build my credit. How can I build my credit?


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I have this project for economics class and I can’t seem to find the answer. Like how can you know if a credit repair company is real or just a scam.


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I would like to learn how to do credit repair. Are there any certification programs? Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. Thank you.


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www.restoremycreditsystem.com Repair Bad Credit with the Restore My Credit system. http

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www.credit-mechanic.blogspot.com Shawn Reed discusses how to organize your debt to settle for pennies on the dollar. This information is 100% Free. This is Part 1 of a series of videos that will help you repair your credit yourself.

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The credit report repair project started back in 1995. During that time, I had just freed myself from the long hours work schedule as a Financial Planner for American Express. I made lots of money as a Financial Planner but I spent little time with my family. My daughter was only 2 years old at the time and the only time I saw her was when she was asleep. Financial Planners work 12 to 15 hours a day.

One of the tasks that financial planners perform is to update or repair the credit reports of our clients. Most of my clients wanted to buy the home of their dreams or start a new business after selling or closing the previous business. Business closure often causes a negative history for the owners. The first step in planning for their financial future was to update and repair their credit history. Most of my clients were working professionals that could easily afford to pay the fee of $1500 to $3000 depending on how much credit damage had been done, to update their credit reports.

As I was preparing for a career change that would allow me to spend more time with my family, I became interested in computer program development and attended classes at Penn State. One of the things I learned early in programming is that you must know the field to write an effective program so I started developing a special easy-to-use software program that would help the average American consumer to repair their credit report history themselves and save them the high fees that attorneys and financial planners were charging to update and repair credit reports.

My first credit report repair program was an instruction manual written in September of 1996. It required the consumer to visit a legal law library in their area and to type the credit report repair letters and personal information themselves. This worked out fine for the people who were willing to do the extra research and typing to achieve their goals. In 1999, the internet was becoming more popular and people were looking for more functional software. This drove me to write a new version of the credit report repair software. This newer version contained the 12 legal form letters that the credit bureaus had to respond to or face Small Claims Court. I also included step-by-step instructions to help people repair their credit reports faster.

As time went on, advancements in computer programming required us to re-develop the program language and add more user friendly features to our credit report repair software. We have produced a user friendly version of the credit report repair software that makes it look browser friendly, saves your personal files, and runs on all versions of Microsoft Windows.

Visit our web site because we now provide Free Sample credit repair software to help you to begin the process of repairing your credit by showing you how, if you qualify, to get a free credit report, and how to rate your Credit Score (in the same ways done by major banks and finance companies). Reviewing your Credit Score and repairing your reports can save you money by helping you secure lower interest rates.

Next, order Credit Repair Software V8.5 which includes a Tool Box of legal form Credit Repair Letters and Credit Repair Instructions. Try our free sample Credit Report Repair Software to help you get started repairing your credit reports now. You should also order the three major Credit Bureau Reports you will need, to help you view and repair your credit history. Visit our web site for more information.

Daood Timazee
Timazee Financial Plans Software
http://www.CreditRepairKitSoftware.com

Author: Daood Timazee

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As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America
 
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A major contribution to the study of bankruptcy and to our understanding of debtors and creditors who end up in bankruptcy court.

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Landmark Study of Consumer Bankruptcy in the U.S.
 
Review Date: May 16, 2000
Reviewer: Susan Nunes, Reno, NV United States
As We Forgive Our Debtors is a result of a landmark study of bankrupt debtors in the 1980s. The authors, three of the leading experts on bankruptcy in the United States, focus on who files for bankruptcy. Contrary to widespread myth, most bankrupts are not irresponsible spendthrifts who could afford to pay their debts. Instead, they cross all income and occupational levels. What they do have in common is they have insurmountable financial problems resulting from crises in their lives, including divorce, job loss, and medical problems.

What is perhaps most disturbing is that single women have been and are increasingly filing for bankruptcy, thanks to their much lower salaries to begin with. It is this group who would suffer most from any kind of so-called bankruptcy reform.

This book, while it is geared for an academic market, is actually highly readable, with copious footnotes at the end of each chapter. The book, while originally published in 1989, is more timely than ever as Congress is considering a fatally flawed bankruptcy reform bill which would be devasting to the vast majority of people filing for bankruptcy but a boon to the credit card industry.

I highly recommend this book and its sequel, The Fragile Middle Class.

An Excellent Study
 
Review Date: February 18, 2007
Reviewer: Gregory McMahan, Tottori, Japan
The authors add a lot of substance to the basic tautology that people who are broke declare bankruptcy. Not only do they both acknowledge and recognize this basic tautology, for the first time, in quantitative terms, they define just what it means to be broke. For the authors, merely coming up short at the end of the month does not qualify one as being broke (though most of us wage earning schmucks would tend to disagree). They demonstrate exactly what level of indebtedness generally forces people to seek the protection of the bankruptcy courts. Based on their work, the key metric appears to be the debt to income ratio, and their analysis shows that the bankrupt tend to have debts that exceed their gross annual income, or in quantitative terms, a debt to income ratio greater than one. Finally, they establish a tipping point based on the debt to income ratio that specifies the point in time at which the indebted fall into the abyss of bankruptcy, which appears to be when debts are eight-tenths of a household's most recent full employment annual gross income.

Honestly speaking, although the material presented is dense, and the text is top-heavy with citations, footnotes and whatnot, the book still reads well. The authors manage to provide a comprehensive treatment of the topic without sacrificing readability. The reader learns about the history and function of US bankruptcy, the various debtors in bankruptcy and also gleans a fair bit of knowledge about creditors in bankruptcy. One slight improvement to the text would have been a summary chapter for the time pressed which could have highlighted the major findings of the study. Otherwise, the authors succeeded admirably in contributing something of value to the bankruptcy literature and to general scholarship.

The book does have several severe limitations, most likely put in place by a colluding cabal of federal agencies and private banking/financial institutions (one could speculate with giddy glee as to why these parties would not want a clear picture of bankruptcy to emerge). I noticed that the sample size, which stood at about 2400, was barely adequate for good statistical inference. The authors pulled the sample from records obtained in three states. A more appropriate (and comprehensive) study would have obtained samples of about this size from each and every state of the union. A statistically literate observer would note that any inferences about the larger population based on such a small sample size would be highly suspect, given that obvious socioeconomic and demographic differences exist within each state, and also that bankruptcy laws tend to vary from state to state. Still, at no point did the authors reason beyond the limits of the available data, nor did they engage in any speculation. In the authors' defense, I must concede that subsequent studies into the US bankruptcy conundrum have affirmed all of their conclusions and most disturbingly, their predictions. The other crippling limitation of this study was the inability to glean the actual reasons for and the progression toward bankruptcy in each particular case. This particular handicap could not have been addressed based on the methodology employed by this study; however, the authors did address these specific points in a follow-up study, which they published in 2000 titled, The Fragile Middle Class- Americans in Debt.

Still, the amount of information that the authors uncovered, as well as their findings based on this information, caused me considerable discomfort. Throughout the narrative, the authors skillfully slay several myths surrounding bankruptcy, and lay bare some disturbing truths about who goes into bankruptcy, and just how bankruptcy comes to pass, albeit in general terms. I found the following observations and conclusions from the book to be the most disturbing:

Bankruptcy is largely a middle-class phenomenon, and generally is not an avenue available to the poor. By middle-class, I mean those that have upwardly-mobile economic aspirations, generally some education beyond high school, and gainfully employed, wage-earning schmucks (the authors present their own more elaborate and more comprehensive definition in the text).

The powers-that-be have progressively made bankruptcy less generous and more difficult for the debtor to obtain. Additionally, the system has steadily funneled more debtors into chapter 13 and fewer and fewer into chapter 7, while simultaneously depriving the debtor of a fighting chance to emerge from bankruptcy and achieve the promise of a fresh start.

The likelihood of bankruptcy increases not only with debt levels, but also with marital status and homeownership. Apart from the obvious observation that married people tend to have higher incomes and assets than their single counterparts, and that homeownership (by this I mean mortgages) go hand in hand with higher debt, the major finding of the study was that a married homeowner was way more likely to go into bankruptcy than a single renter. As such, the results seem to support the counter-intuitive notion that marriage and homeownership are far from being the safe harbors and islands of stability that all of us generally consider them to be, and usually are the key ingredients for a bankruptcy. I do not mean to say that marriage and homeownership cause bankruptcy; they merely tend to be pre-existing states which in more than a few cases further exacerbate, rather than ameliorate, a financial crisis, which in all honesty is usually caused by some other precipitating event. A critical reader should, as a given, bear in mind that other forces are always at work (such as divorce, job loss and illness to name a few).

Women tend to seek bankruptcy protection more frequently than men, and both sexes tend to seek bankruptcy protection in equal frequencies after a divorce. Interestingly, single men (who may also rent) tend to have the lowest bankruptcy rates, while single females as a group (inclusive of all marital and childbearing combinations) have the highest bankruptcy rates (note also that married women have lower bankruptcy rates than unmarried women). This disturbing outcome seems to strongly imply that from a financial standpoint, marriage is a stabilizing force for women and a de-stabilizing force for men.

In sum, the authors have produced a detailed analysis of the socio-economics and the demography of failure, both economic and financial, in America. As such, I believe the book should be required reading for anyone looking to own a home or get married in this great nation of ours.
SELF-FULLFILLING PROPHECY OF DEBT
 
Review Date: March 7, 2004
Reviewer: Mason Johnson, Brooklyn, New York United States
This book does an outstanding job of delivering the message that Americans are tapped out of money. From record setting personal bankruptcies to U.S. government's pension for borrowing, it is very easy to see that we as a populis and as a nation are on the edge of a new financial depression. An Excellent Read for Anyone interested in the Truth. - Mason Johnson, President, www.tomorrowsgold.com
A Federally-Funded Tautology?
 
Review Date: July 29, 2002
Reviewer: Marc S. Klein, Martinsville, New Jersey USA
The federal government funded this "empirical" study of the "choices" available to those who have filed for bankruptcy.

The principal finding? People who file for bankruptcy are broke. A true revelation.

So where is Senator Proxmire when you need him?


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There’s so many credit repair co. out there and I don’t know which have a good credentials or does it really work like they advertised?


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