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I have been poking around this forum for a bit trying to learn and gain information in rebuilding my credit. I made some stupid mistakes with student loans when I was younger and am trying my best to clean it up and fix my credit.
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I recently saw my new scores, which were sitting at 621 EQ, 595, EX, 591 TU. I don’t know how accurate these scores are, but I got them from Bank of America’s Privacy Assist Premier. This leads me into my first question.Â
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1. What is the preferred service for monitoring real Fico scores (preferably with monthly updates) and maybe monthly or quarterly updates to the full reports?
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My next question is somewhat longer as I have a hard time making sense of a lot of the abbreviations being used on this forum. If you provide explanations, please spell out the words so I don’t have to hunt down abbreviations on Google. =)
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I obtained recent credit reports yesterday and wanted to know what I can do about certain things listed within. I hope I can provide enough information to obtain the help of the wonderful people on this board. The things littering my credit report are mostly Sallie Mae student loans. I have a couple lines for a private loan, and quite a few for federal loans.Â
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The federal loans defaulted a year or two ago, but I went through rehabilitation for all of them and the loan was recently picked up by, unfortunately, Sallie Mae again. Though GRC (the company I did the rehabilitation through) tells me I will likely only have to make one payment to Sallie Mae before the loans goes over to the government. We’ll see what happens there. I had a couple questions regarding the rehabilitated loans and what is showing on my credit report:
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2. All of my credit reports are still showing random things for the 6 federal loans that got rehabilitated:
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I have 6 of these dated originally at 11/103 showing as ‘transferred to another office’. It does not list any negative information that I can see, but does show current from this year. Is this the original loans that got rehabilitated? What does ‘transferred to another office’ generally mean (if not literal)? Since these were opened 11/03, can/should I write Experian and have them removed?
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Not listed is the current and past due balance. I pasted this info from Excel, and the acct number isn’t anywhere near complete, so I am not worried about deleting it for the purposes of this thread.
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The other 2 are showing as Payment Deferred. Not sure if this is negative or positive. They are also from 11/03. Unfortunately, these Sallie Mae accounts are showing as my longest accounts. Will having these lines removed lower my credit length? These 2 are from Experian.
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| Sallie Mae |
Not Listed |
Not Listed |
11/1/03 |
22003XXXX |
Transferred |
Closed – Reported OK Jan 2011 |
| Sallie Mae |
Not Listed |
Not Listed |
11/1/03 |
59969XXXX |
Transferred |
Closed – OK Nov 2010 + Pymnt Defrrd
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On TransUnion these similar lines are showing with negative information:
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| Sallie Mae |
$0 |
$0 |
12/1/09 |
71000**** |
Current |
Transfer Showing Del 120+ Days |
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Isn’t the rehabilitation supposed to clear these records up on my credit report? The new loans haven’t even showed up on TransUnion yet.
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And on Equifax:
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| Sallie Mae |
$0 |
$0 |
1/1/11 |
00032XXXX |
Current |
Transfer Showing Del 90+ Days |
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Showing as 90 days late, but transferred.
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I’m not sure what/if I can do anything to update these records in my favor. Any advice is appreciated.
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The private loans through Sallie Mae also are sitting as Charge Offs on my credit reports. I tried to contact them and the collection agency involved at the time to make whatever plans I could to make payments and pay the loans off, but Sallie Mae refused to talk to me and the collection agency refused to let me go into payments, instead asking for an ~$18k lump sum payment, which they swore I had access to based on information in my credit report (will get to this). Needless to say, no agreement was reached regarding the private loans and they have been sitting dormant on my credit report. I am unsure what to do about this part.
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I seem to be seeing contradicting information between my credit reports on these 2 loans:
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Equifax shows them as being opened on 02/06 and 09/04, but TransUnion shows them as being removed in 2014 and 2015. Isn’t that way past 7 years? I doubt I can do anything about these as the charge offs are closed already.  Allied Financial ended up getting these accounts, but I sent them a debt validation letter, they sent it back incomplete, I never responded, and I haven’t heard from them since. Not sure if I should do anything else regarding that.
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3.  I had a checking account with Union Bank a while back. I closed the account and the person closing it must have failed to tell me that I owed them $100 for god knows what (maybe overdraft charges). I didn’t find out for over a year when I checked my credit reports, promptly paid it, and it has been sitting as ‘Paid after Charge Off’ on my reports. Is there anything I can do to get these removed? TransUnion shows one version of it dropping off May of this year, and another version dropping off September of next year.
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4. My Experian credit reports has 2 revolving AMEX accounts totaling $20k limits due to some error. These accounts have always been paid on time and the balances has never passed 25%. When something is charged to it, they are paid off. I should probably have these removed correct? Unfortunately, this is showing as the longest account on my Experian report.
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I am doing what I can to clean up my credit report up until now. I opened an Orchard Bank unsecured card ($320 limit), haven’t put more than $100 on it, and pay it off monthly. This weekend I am going to my new credit union and opening a secured Visa with them for $1k, which can be moved over to unsecured in 6-12 months. I am much more financially stable nowadays and would like any advice I can get into cleaning up my credit more than I have. Like everyone, I would like to get married and buy a house someday, and I don’t want anything negative in my credit reports when I want to.
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Thank you all for your time. I apologize for the length of this post. I can also provide any other information needed if requested.
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Ignore this. I couldn’t delete it.
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