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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Why use professional help when repairing credit?

By Ricardo Mendiola

If you are one of the fifty percent of credit consumers whose credit rankings fall below "good" you may have tried looking for credit repair options online. One thing you may have noticed is that there are a lot ads and schemes that offer you quick solutions, also known as quick fixes, if you purchase their solutions or software.

Depending on what type of credit situation you are in, this option might be quite enticing as some people are facing immediate credit situations that are affecting their futures and/or the accumulation of a debt that looks like it will never get low enough to manage again. You may even decide to try one of these quick fix methods to get your credit repair started and completed in one step. DON'T.

There are two ways mainly that a professional can help you with when starting credit repair. If you have let your situation get so bad that not only you have been living above your means, but you have acquired debt on top of debt, it is time to stop trying to get yourself out of the mess yourself, and perhaps see a bankruptcy lawyer to file. If you have been sinking for awhile, unfortunately this may be your only way to start again.

Internet scammers prey on individual's hardest tasks and most prevalent concerns. For example, many people are obsessed with getting thinner, hence a multimillionaire diet industry and yet a growing obesity rate. Some situations simply do not have quick fix solutions, and credit repair is one of them.

If you do not believe this, you are welcome to try one of the many scams on the internet that will welcome you into their credit repair world, but you are only going to end up with less money (which since you are in debt you cannot afford) or in legal trouble. There's a scenario you probably may not have imagined, no matter how much money you owe.

Many times, the credit repair solutions that a scammer will offer you in return for your money is advice on how to create a new fresh credit score for yourself. While this may seem like a breath of fresh air and a welcome opportunity, what they will not mention to you is that it is illegal. Should you decide to go ahead and do this, you not only will succeed in adding on much more debt to your nice pile you currently have accumulated, but you will eventually get caught and be sentenced to prison and/or huge fines for committing credit fraud. Probably not what you had in mind when you were looking for a fast solution.

One note of caution however, when you begin credit repair, you need to be careful not to simply place your trust in anyone. The online world is full of scammers who will not do a single thing besides take your money in exchange for an empty promise to help you fix your credit, which if you are sinking, you absolutely cannot afford.

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