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How long do items on my Credit Report stay on my Credit Report?

The items listed on your Credit Report can be positive, negative, or neutral. Items on your Credit Report that are negative such as an overdue account, can only remain on your Credit Report for seven years.

How long does a bankruptcy stay on my Credit Report?

Bankruptcies may remain on your report for no more than ten years. However, if you apply for a job that pays over $75,000, for credit of $150,000 or more, or life insurance for $150,000 or more, then these previously mentioned negative items will appear on the report without regard to how old the items are. (FCRA, Sec. 1681(c).)

How to read a Credit Report

The three credit reporting agencies present credit information in different ways on their credit reports. If you request your Credit Report from all three credit reporting companies, you will probably find that none of the credit reports contain exactly the same information.

Often certain debts are included in one credit reporting company's Credit Report, but left out of another credit reporting company's. To completely review your credit history, you will need to obtain all three credit reports.

What happened to the TRW credit report?

Many consumers may remember their credit report being called a TRW report. TRW Information Systems is still around; it's just changed its name to Experian.

What is a credit report?

A person's credit report is simply a record of how he or she pays his or her bills. Creditors or lenders will pull your credit report before they offer you a loan or credit. They need some indication that you are a safe bet for them to lend money to. Your credit report contains most of the information they need.

What does a credit report contain? What are in the credit report?

A person's credit report shows his or her entire financial life on paper. Examples of what a credit report contains are:

• social security number
• current and past addresses
• employments
• loans
• credit cards
• mortgages
• other debts
• late payments
• collections
• liens
• bankruptcies
• foreclosures

If your credit report shows many delinquencies, a bankruptcy, or more loans than you are capable of paying, creditors will view you as a bad credit risk. Since you are judged in many ways almost entirely on the basis of your credit report and Credit Score, you need to make sure that your credit report is accurate and as positive as possible.

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