Creditors don’t have to notify you before account is charged-off
Charge-Off Notification: Do creditors have an obligation to notify you directly when they close an account for late payments or charge-off an account?
Charge-Off Notification: Do creditors have an obligation to notify you directly when they close an account for late payments or charge-off an account?
Multiple charge-offs on a credit report will destroy a credit score unless you take action. Get strategies to remove multiple charges and improve credit scores.
Voluntary Repossession: 4 Strategies to get voluntary and involuntary car repossessions from credit reports. Lenders must follow particular steps to collect deficiency balance.
Some credit disputes can actually cause a drop in scores because the last date of activity is updated. Old negatives that are disputed can appear more recent if the date last reported is current.
Checking account overdrafts can lead to a charge-off on credit reports. But a pay for delete offer can remove a charge-off if the bank agrees.
If you are successful in getting a creditor to remove a charge-off, make sure you get the agreement in writing as your proof. Once the agreement is in writing, you can have it enforced.
Gap insurance can be misleading, it’s not a catch-all policy that covers car payments under any circumstances. It may not cover the diminished value of your car after an accident.
You can get approved for a mortgage loan with unpaid charge-offs. But even though FHA allows charge-offs some lenders may have stricter requirements.
A Verizon Wireless account charge-off can occur even if a deposit was applied to the unpaid account balance and the early termination fee.
Original creditor is no longer reporting an account to the credit bureaus but debt collector is reporting new dates on the account. This action is re-aging an account which is illegal.