I Need Help With Making My Credit Score Better

Question:

Dear Steve,

I need help with my credit history and payments.

I contacted the credit collection companies and started paying on some outstanding accounts.

How can I get my credit fixed and remove these accounts to be able to raise my credit score?

Sonia

Answer:

Dear Sonia,

This recent podcast talks specifically about how to repair your credit and make it shine again. You can read the podcast transcript here.

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Fixing credit is not about removing old negative history but more about cleaning up delinquent accounts and then having new current credit being reported to pull your score up.

Steve Rhode Debt Coach and Author

Steve Rhode is the Get Out of Debt Guy and has been helping good people with bad debt problems since 1994. You can learn more about Steve, here.

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