"I have a bankruptcy on my credit file so my credit rating is terrible. What can I do about it? I have come across credit repair companies who say it is possible to remove a bankruptcy from my credit file. Is there actually a way I can get my good credit back?"
Questions like these are common. Bad credit scores affect millions of Americans and in an economy where even people with decent credit scores are having a hard time getting loans, those with sub-par credit ratings are finding themselves being left out of the credit game entirely. Naturally, they begin inquiring about what they can do other than standing idly by for years waiting for the negative items in their credit files to age and eventually disappear.
The answers people receive when asking these questions are typically discouraging. The majority of the time, they are simply told that they will have to wait. Wait 7 long years for most negative listings and 10 years or more for a bankruptcy. And as if that wasn't enough, the people answering these questions also tend to throw in unnecessary jabs like, "that's what you get for being careless" or "you should have thought of that before you acted irresponsibly".
This is sad because what most people don't realize is that so many people with bad credit don't deserve it. They are simply a victim of circumstance and in many cases, a circumstance that is practically unavoidable.
The single largest cause cause of bankruptcy in America is fallout from a medical emergency or illness and while on on hand you can say that a
good insurance provider and preventative care will keep these situations from destroying a person's finances, that is not always the case. Complications from unforeseen gaps in insurance coverage and billing errors can end up making you have to pay much more out of pocket than expected and when coupled with the loss of wages or sometimes loss of job that can go along with an illness or injury, these expenses can lead even the most responsible people down the road to bankruptcy.
Fortunately, for many people, not all hope is lost. Despite what most people believe, it is possible to dispute and permanently remove any type of item from a credit report, including a bankruptcy. The law gives consumers the right to dispute any item on their credit reports that is inaccurate or misleading. The law gives people who are being unfairly labeled as a a credit risk the opportunity to work to correct their credit score.
This process of working to remove questionable negative items from credit reports has become known as
credit repair. Whether through their own credit repair efforts or with the help of a reputable
credit repair company, hundreds of thousands of people have been able to legally and permanently delete negative items from their credit reports including late payments, charge offs, collections accounts and bankruptcies.