could by credit be cleaned even if there old account I mean

Submitted by eli_70ibarra on Wed, 04/28/2010 - 07:01
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my credit score is 487 all my bad credit is due to hospital bills I never paid and a repossession of a car

you can work on improving your credit. Dispute some items on your credit report.

Wed, 04/28/2010 - 21:19 Permalink

Hi Eli,

Welcome to this community :)

Can you tell what is the status of all these accounts on your credit report? Generally all negatives on your account fall off after 7 years. Thus, if it's been 7 years, and the negatives are still there on your credit report, you can try to dispute these items with the credit bureaus. You will get a sample dispute letter with this community which you can use to write one of your own.

In addition take a secured credit card. This is easy to get with low credit score. After that make small purchases using the card, and make on-time payments on these. This will help you in increasing your score.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Aaron

Thu, 04/29/2010 - 09:56 Permalink