Debt Agency: How to Acquire Your Free Credit Report

Nancy Clyne
First let us begin with how to acquire your credit report. There are three leading credit reporting agencies that will provide you the one free credit report you receive annually. They are Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax. Here is there contact information:

1. Equifax - If you would like to contact them online, then you can go here at www.equifax.com. You may as well order your free credit report by post. But, they just offer this choice at least for free to residents in the states of Colorado, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Vermont. All other states are asked to pay a $10 fee.

If you are interested in acquiring your credit report by mail, then send your request to Equifax Information Services, LLC; Disclosure Department; P.O. Box 740241; Atlanta, GA 30374. You may in addition call them at 1-800-685-1111.

2. For TransUnion - you can contact them at www.transunion.com. You can also contact them by mail by acquiring a copy of their mail request form online and mailing it to the address provided. You may also call them at 1-877-322-8228.

3. Experian - www.experian.com is where you are able to make a request for a credit report from this credit reporting agency. At this website you will be required to download a form from their website if you are needing your credit report by mail.

There are as well a number of online sites that will as well provide you a free credit report from their websites, but they will merely be sending you to one of the above websites.

Although you receive one free credit report annually, experts advise that if you are earnest about raising your credit score, you want to analyse the report from from each one of the three leading credit reporting agencies. However,it will, cost you a small fee from the other two, so bear that in mind.

Why do experts advise you to acquire all three? Well that is because creditors tend to just select which credit reporting agency they prefer to report to although a few creditors will report to all three, however most will not. So you might discover that what is enclosed on one report Is not on another. The reports tend to have different data since it is a voluntary system, and creditors support to which agency they feel most comfotable with.

Published by Nancy Clyne

I am a pastor's wife and a mother of 3 children. Two boys who are Autistic and a little 3 year old girl who we adopted from China  View profile

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