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Credit Score Education September 6, 2006

Posted by LauraLoans in Blogroll, credit, credit scoring, loans.
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I am an expert in mortgage lending and credit.  I am here to teach you tips on how to help your credit in order to qualify for better loans with lower interest rates. 

Today’s question is:  Does paying off my collections increase my credit score? 

The answer is: NO, absolutely not.  It acutally hurts your score because when you pay it off, it now shows as being a recent late on your credit report.  The solution is: to negotiate a letter of deletion prior to paying of the collection. 

Example: My sister paid off her collection prior to applying for law school loans and was denied because her score actually went down.  I then stepped in and hired a credit company to help with this mistake.  After several calls with the company, which recorded the collection, we were able to get them to agree to delete this.  However, we did give up our tool for persuading them to delete the derogatory mark by paying it off first.

Please email me any questions to LauraLoans@verizon.net.

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1. maggie knowles - September 7, 2006

That is very interesting Laura, I did not know that you could negotiate a letter of deletion prior to paying the collection.

2. rudolph d. bachraty III - September 8, 2006

great tip laura.

-rdb.sellsius°

ps. maggie – thanks for introducing us to laura’s new blog!

3. subodh - November 1, 2006

can we negotiate letter of deletion after we have paid off the collection account ?? If so, could you explain, how to go about it?

4. Mark - December 18, 2006

excellent tip, but I agree with subodh.. how can we go about getting this letter of deletion after paying off the debt? I just finished paying off one today and when i went to confirm that I would get my letter of paid in full and letter of deletion, the guy claimed that a letter of deletion is a form of fraud… ??? I don’t understand! thanks – Mark

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