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Most people probably know that there is a company somewhere that keeps track of their credit and provides a credit report to lenders when they request a loan. But unfortunately, that is typically the extent of their knowledge, and even worse, what they don't know can actually hurt them in the long run.

There are three companies that keep track of your financial and credit history, which are Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax. They know more about you than you think or perhaps are even comfortable with, but that's what it is. They compete with each other so they do not share information between them. Some lenders report to one of them every month, other lenders report to another one, and large financial obligations like your mortgage probably report to two of them or even all three.

Now compound this scenario with even more complexity. Since they are in the business to make a profit, they are always trying to get more companies to report to them, and so lender "A" who used to report to Equifax switches next year to report to Experian, and Visa who used to report to TransUnion now reports to only Equifax. This changes all the time, every year and even every month.

You may be starting to see how and where errors are introduced into your credit report. No single credit agency has the whole credit picture on you, which is why your credit score differs at each agency. Even worse, when Visa reported your very overdue bill last year and now Visa reports to a different agency, that first agency will keep that very overdue bill on file forever, because they are never notified that you satisfied it and are no longer past due.

Research and studies have found that a majority, a large majority of the US population have errors in their credit reports with one or more of these three agencies. The overall impact of these errors is that when the credit bureau calculates your credit score, it is almost certainly lower than it should really be. This in turn means that you are not getting the best interest rate on your credit cards, car loans, and mortgage, and this can also have similar negative effects in other parts of your financial life.

The only way this ever gets resolved is if you dispute it. There are right ways and wrong ways to dispute inaccurate information, because there are a lot of people who are disputing negative information that really is accurate in the hopes that it will just go away. This is an unfortunate fact for consumers who are trying to get truly incorrect information corrected or removed from their credit reports.

Having inaccurate information in your credit report is senseless and makes your credit score less than it should be. Getting these errors corrected is something you can do yourself and you do not need to pay a "credit fixer" company to do it for you, where they could even make it worse. The longer you wait to get this done, the worse off you are going to be, so make a point to get this done starting today.

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