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Your new start in bankruptcy benefits you
in three important ways:
The creditors stop calling you.
They cannot garnish you; and
In three years you can have good credit.
What do I
mean by good credit? In three years you can have credit good enough to
be able to get a car loan at around 6 - 7%. In three years you
have credit good enough to finance house at the interest rate most
people are paying--assuming that you are making enough money to afford the
house.
Why do so
many people say seven years with bad credit?
One reason that many people take longer than three years to get back to
good credit is that some credit card companies keep reporting people as late after the bankruptcy is
over.
While they credit card companies are required by law to report
information accurately, the truth is they often don’t. At
least half of the people I see have errors on their credit reports after
the bankruptcy is over.
So we contact the big three credit bureaus and tell them what
your credit report should look like. That gets them to make most of
the changes they were supposed to make without being told.
We also sue the credit card companies. If we have to sue them for
you, we get your credit report right, and also try to get you a little
money. (Typically, about $300.00.) We go that extra step to make sure you get your new start.
Robert Weed
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