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05 July 2009 @ 09:52 am
 
So, I haven't been doing the whole get-my-free-credit-report-every-four-months thing like I'd planned, since I don't use the task manager I'd been using to remind me of it anymore.

But, having been reminded by I don't remember what, I went to go get them.
TransUnion won't let me have it yet, because it hasn't been a year since the last one. Oh, that was August. Ok.
Experian says "For security reasons, we are unable to provide immediate access to your personal credit report.", and wants to send me a letter and I can't be bothered.
So, Equifax it is.
And, because I like numbers that don't mean anything to anybody who actually contributes to society, I paid them for my credit score as usual. 721. Down from August (836) but higher than last April (698).

And there's an account showing as open, with $0 balance, which should be closed.
Interestingly, the credit score says "You have a relatively high number of consumer finance company accounts being reported". It doesn't care that all but one of them are closed, nor that two of them were opened by mistake and never used (window company contacted loan company about financing the windows, and they wouldn't give us enough to pay for it, so we didn't use them. but they (the loan company) opened the accounts anyway, because they're apparently asshats). But, whatever.

Still need another kilobuck a month. Or five.
 
 
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[info]pauldf on July 6th, 2009 04:43 pm (UTC)
And there's an account showing as open, with $0 balance, which should be closed.

I had one of those (well, actually, worse than that, one that was marked as only partly closed out, but still with a $0 balance, and therefore, it's been showing up as just having been closed within 30 days for over a year now), and disputed it a few months ago. The process was annoying; the creditor simply didn't understand the problem, and the data the credit agency phone rep had in front of her was not worded the same way as what I had on my report, and she would only let me dispute her info, not the info I actually had. But it worked. Sadly, the close date still wasn't properly backdated.
Jaymoe: Alice[info]cooncat on July 7th, 2009 06:30 pm (UTC)
Did you use this link: https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp
...to request your credit report from Equifax? I don't think you should have been charged if you did.
Martin Tithonium[info]tithonium on July 7th, 2009 06:33 pm (UTC)
the credit report is free. the score is not, annoyingly.