New to this Blog but I need help on how to repair my credit

Aug 302010
 
I was sent to this site from yahoo answers website. I was told this is the best site to go to for help. I am so tired of wrestling with my credit right now. I have paid for everything with cash in the last 5 years. I have several collection accounts, credit cards that are marked as charged off, and medicals personal loans and now I have student loans that were supposed to be in default and they aren’t! What else can go wrong? I’m 35 and need to buy a house. I earn 80,000 a year and can’t seem to get my credit together. I have paid a company 100 a month to clear my credit but it seems as though it was a waste! Most of my collections are over 5 yrs old. Should I just sit around for 2 more years and hope they fall off or should I just pay them off and hope that it doesn’t update my negative credit trying to do “the right thing”!! I’m a complete mess. I pay rent of 975 a month along with lights, water, electricity, cable and can’t get a home in my own name!! I’m never late on these items either. Whats really frustrating is that I just got an orchard bank card, a secured credit card through my credit union and opened up a loan in a furniture store to help fix my credit and it has actually dropped 56 points!! Why? Can I get some serious answers to resolve my situation please? I really need help. I’m willing to do whatever it takes.