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Drossman-Krupnick Legal Group provides professional credit repair services. If you are considering bankruptcy or are facing foreclosure, or if you are getting ready to purchase a new home, taking advantage of professional credit repair can help make your dreams come true!
Credit Repair in Practice
A law firm must act on your behlalf carefully in order to remove accurate and timely negative information from a credit report. However you have to request an investigation of your disputed items by pointing up how inaccurate or incomplete they are.
According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA):
- You’re entitled to a free report if a company takes “adverse action” against you, like denying your application for credit, insurance, or employment. You have to ask for your report within 60 days of receiving notice of the action. The notice will give you the name, address, and phone number of the consumer reporting company. You’re also entitled to one free report a year if you’re unemployed and plan to look for a job within 60 days; if you’re on welfare; or if your report is inaccurate because of fraud, including identity theft.
- Each of the nationwide consumer reporting companies — Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion — is required to provide you with a free copy of your credit report once every 12 months, if you ask for it. The three companies have a central website, a toll-free telephone number, and a mailing address for consumers to order the free annual credit reports the government entitles them to. To order, click on annualcreditreport.com, call 1-877-322-8228, or complete the Annual Credit Report Request Form and mail it to:
Annual Credit Report Request Service P.O. Box 105281 Atlanta, GA 30348-5281
You can use the form in this brochure, or you can print it from ftc.gov/credit. You may order reports from each of the three consumer reporting companies at the same time, or you can stagger your requests, ordering one from each company throughout the year from the central address. Don’t contact the three nationwide consumer reporting companies individually or at another address because you may end up paying for a report that you’re entitled to get for free. In fact, each consumer reporting company may charge you up to $10.50 to purchase an additional copy of your report within a 12-month period.
- It doesn’t cost anything to dispute mistakes or outdated items on your credit report. Under the FCRA, both the consumer reporting company and the information provider (that is, the person, company, or organization that provides information about you to a consumer reporting company) are responsible for correcting inaccurate or incomplete information in your report. To take advantage of all your rights under the FCRA, contact the consumer reporting company and the information provider.
The firm represents clients in federal, state and local trial and appellate courts on civil matters including:
- Credit Repair
- Negligence
- Personal Injury
- Wrongful Death
- Corporate and Commercial Litigation
- Employment Matters
- Contract and Real Estate Disputes
- DWI and Other Traffic Violations
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