Almost
5 years ago, my wife was involved in a serious car accident.
We had to use all of our savings to pay the medical bills
and other expenses. Because of that, I fell behind a couple
of payments on my cell phone and cable bills. It only
took me a month or two to pay off the balances, so I thought
"no big deal".
A couple of months after that, we realized that we didn't
want to keep renting anymore; so,we decided to buy our
first house. I had a really
good job, we were finally debt free and everything was
working out great for us. We spent about 6 weeks
searching for the house of our dreams. It was gorgeous!
It had a fireplace and a huge backyard where our two daughters
and dog could play for hours.
So we went to the bank that had our
business for over 8 years to get a loan.
The lady who took care of us was very nice. She offered us a cup of coffee and she told us that she was very excited for us since this was going to be our first home. She asked us to fill out some forms, then she checked something in the computer, and then said something totally unexpected.
She told us that she was rejecting us because our credit history wasn't good enough. I couldn't believe it! I always paid eveything on time. I just fell behind a couple of payments on my cell phone and cable bills so I could pay my wife's medical bills!
I told this lady that there had to be a mistake and I asked her to check again. She said that the credit score is never wrong, she told us she was sorry, wished us a good day, and started looking behind our shoulders to call the next person in line. We couldn't believe that the same lady who was so nice 10 minutes before was being so rude to us.
That really hurt
our feelings, but we decided that since they didn't want
our business, we were going to take it somewhere else.
And we did. At least, we tried.
Guess
what happened next? 13 lenders rejected us, one after
another. They said we represented "too
much risk" to them. We were turned down a total
of 14 times; I was very depressed.
I was ready
to give up. The idea of sitting in front of a lender again
just to hear one more time that I wasn't good enough was
just terrifying. It was my wife who didn't let me quit.
She really wanted us to buy our own house and she convinced
me to fix my credit score.
The
first thing I did was to contact a very prestigious credit
repair company. Their services seem pretty good,
but when they told me it would cost me $2,250 I thought
they were completely out of their minds. I just wasn't
going to spend that kind of money. Then I found a company
that promised to fix my credit for $97 a month. It looked
reasonable; so, I hired their services.
Four months
later, I discovered that my credit score only improved
6 points! It was a joke. Sarah made a good point: since
these guys were charging me monthly and once your credit
score is fixed you don't need their services anymore,
they work as slow as they can!
So I decided that I was going to fix my credit score
by myself. I sent a letter to the 3 credit bureaus requesting
removal of the negative items I had in them. Guess what
happened? They labeled my request as frivolous,
rejected the removal request, and told me that I couldn't
dispute those items again for 12 months! It's
kind of embarrasing to admit it, but I cried that day.
I felt hopeless.
I finally gave up...
Two or three weeks after that, I met a really nice guy
at a friend's birthday party. He was a lawyer and worked
for a credit repair agency. I told him about my problem
and he invited me to have some coffee during the week
so he could help me.
Meeting this guy was the best thing that has ever happened
to me. He explained why the credit bureaus rejected
my request and exactly how to do it right next time.
He had developed a step-by-step system and shared it with
me. After all that I had been through, I was very skeptical
by this point, but since I didn't have anything to lose,
I decided to give it a try.
So I used the template letters that the lawyer gave me,
I filled in the blanks, I followed his step-by-step instructions,
and I mailed in the letters to the bureaus. Three weeks
later, I ordered another credit report and I couldn't
believe what had happened. My score
went from 592 to 717 in only 3 weeks. At first,
I thought there was some kind of mistake, so I called
the company who I had gotten the reports from and they
said there was no mistake and that was my real score.
I was totally blown away by the results. It was hard to
believe, but it was true.
Sarah and I went back to check out some houses and we
found one that we really liked in less than a week. We
went to a mortgage lender to get a loan.
I
recall that we were very nervous, fearing that something
could go wrong again. Well, the loan officer approved
our application on the spot and they offered
a very competitive interest rate.
We were very excited and went to see another lender to
see what they could offer to us. They approved us too
and the interest rate they offered was even lower. Wow!
It was incredible. Months ago, we were rejected by over
a dozen lenders and now two lenders
were fighting for our business.
Oh, I almost forgot. Do you remember
the first lender who turned us down?
One week after we bought our house she called us and
said that she heard that we were shopping around for a
loan and that we were automatically approved for a loan
with them at a better interest rate. Sarah was the one
who picked up the phone and reminded the lady how rude
she was to us in the past and then said something like,
"I can't keep talking to you now because I have
to take care of other lenders who are offering me their
money. Have a good day!" and she hung up the
phone. It was hilarious and it was a great feeling.
After raising my credit score by 125 points in three weeks,
I wanted to pay it forward and I
have since helped more than 300 people to improve their
credit scores. Every single one of them, without
exception, saw their credit scores improve significantly.
Some of them by only 45 points and others by as much as
167 points in less than one and a half months.
The truth is that you don't need to pay a company thousands
of dollars to get your credit report fixed. You
can do it yourself. But there's no way you can
do it right, unless you know exactly how to do it. Make
just one mistake and the bureaus will not only reject
your request and maintain your poor credit score, but
they will also label the request as "frivolous"
and by law you cannot submit another request for
an entire year!
That is why I want to help you. I want to share all my
secrets. I want to share over 4 years of experience fixing
credits. I want to share all the mistakes I have made
during all these years; so, you don't make them, too.
You can instantly absorb the experience I got from fixing
over 300 credit scores and improve your own by 50 to 150
points in no time flat.