Can Collections Be Erased from a Credit Report?
Depending on how much a credit claims you owe, even a single collections account on your credit reports can do serious damage to your credit score. Collections accounts for smaller dollar amounts don’t weigh down your credit score as much, but if you have a number of these negative listings listed on your credit reports, don’t be surprised when your credit score isn’t as high as you would like it to be. Regardless of whether a is reported for $100, $500, $1,000 or more, your credit would probably be higher if it didn’t show up on your credit reports. Just about everyone would prefer to have this damaging credit listing erased, but few realize there is anything they can do about it. What they are not aware of is that there are steps you can take in an effort to delete collections accounts from your credit reports. In fact, Lexington Law, a consumer advocacy law firm with 18 years of experience helping over 1/2 million Americans work to improve their credit, reports that their clients ha
