Understand Credit Repair with These Top 10 Buzzwords!

Hey, credit heroes. Do you speak the language of credit repair? All financial services have their own unique terminology, but believe it or not, terminology can sometimes confuse and intimidate people and prevent them from seeking financial services. So today I'm going to list the top 10 credit repair terms that everyone needs to know. So you better stick around. My name is Daniel Rosen and welcome to Credit Repair Business Secrets. Okay, if this is your first time listening to my podcast, every week I cover industry news, financial tips, and entrepreneurial advice for bootstrapping your business from nothing. This show is the best how to guide for business owners and there's no other podcast like it. So be sure to click that subscribe button now and get ready to start changing lives. Okay, so no matter what your age is, every everyone feels confused and intimidated when they try to learn something new. And when it comes to financial services, confusion and intimidation can hold people back from achieving their dreams. That's why today, in order to help people to understand what we do and to ease any intimidation, I'm going to give an intro to the world of credit repair by listing the top 10 terms that everyone needs to know. Now before we get started, this podcast is brought to you by Credit Hero Score. Credit Hero Score is the only credit monitoring service that integrates directly with credit repair cloud. Get instant access to your credit reports and scores by signing up for a seven day trial for only $1. Sign up right now at creditheroscore.com okay, let's get into this. Confusion and intimidation affect consumers financial decisions. A study by the Milken Institute determined that 43% of adults in the US are considered financially illiterate, and that is a huge percentage of the population. And A survey by one poll found that 41% of Americans are intimidated by their own finances. And and who can blame them? We're not taught personal finance in school and financial fine print often reads like it was designed to be confusing. So how does this relate to us? Well, credit repair. Even though it's been around for decades, it's still a relatively new industry. So the problem of customers not knowing what we do or what our words mean has an even greater impact than other financial services. These top 10 common words and phrases can provide you or your customers with the vocabulary needed to understand the basics of credit repair and allow both sides to communicate important information. Now, if you're looking to repair your credit, these terms will help you to understand how our industry works. And if you have a credit repair business, you can use this as inspiration to make your own educational materials. You here's what's important. We are not going to be discussing advanced terminology. There won't be any talk of arrears, cram downs, piggybacking, rebucketing. Sometimes I even forget what rebucketing means. This is all about learning the introductory language of credit repair, and that's probably the best place to start. Credit repair is the process of identifying and deleting inaccurate, incomplete and outdated information from credit reports. Some businesses might call it credit mending, credit restoration, or credit rehabilitation, but it all means the same thing. Now let's get into the top 10 credit repair terms that everyone needs to know. Credit Credit is deferred payment when making a purchase based on a borrower promising to pay the full amount plus interest at a later date. Creditor A creditor, also known as a lender, is an individual or entity whom the borrower owes money. The Credit History Credit history is a record of a borrower's ability to repay debts and demonstrate responsibility in repaying them. Credit histories are recorded in credit reports so you can guess what's up. Next Credit Report A credit report is a detailed summary of a borrower's credit history. Credit reporting agencies keep these reports on file and submit them to potential creditors on request or who use them to determine whether or not a borrower is credit worthy. Credit reports include the number and types of credit accounts a borrower has used, as well as how long each account has been open, the amounts owed, the amount of available credit used, whether bills are paid on time or not, and the number of recent credit inquiries. Credit Inquiry an inquiry is a request for a copy of the borrower's credit report to evaluate their credit worthiness. Inquiries take place during the submission of every credit application to determine whether a borrower should be extended credit. There are hard inquiries and soft inquiries. A hard inquiry is an inquiry where the creditor requests a copy of the borrower's credit report after they applied for credit or a loan. Hard inquiries are designed to evaluate a borrower's risk level and they do affect your score, especially if you have a lot of them. A soft inquiry is an inquiry where a lender requests a copy of the borrower's credit report, but it has no effect on the borrower's credit rating. Also, if you're pulling your own credit like with a credit monitoring service like Credit Hero Score, that does not affect your score at all. Credit Score A credit score is a statistics based number that speaks to the borrower's credit report and overall credit history. Credit scores convey how likely borrowers are to repay future debts. The credit scoring system helps determine whether a potential borrower should be extended credit and the most common credit scoring systems are FICO and Vantage, and the scores range from 300 to 850. A high credit score means the borrower has good credit, and a low score means the borrower has bad credit. Borrowers with bad credit tend to struggle to get approved for credit from traditional lenders, and if they do get approved, the down payments and interest rates tend to be very high. Bad credit can be the result of late payments, skipped payments, evictions or bankruptcies, or even identity theft. And they're also often the result of an error made by one of the credit bureaus because nearly 8 out of 10 credit reports contain errors. That's why it's very important to check your credit reports, often credit bureaus. Credit bureaus, also known as credit reporting agencies, are entities that keep the borrower's credit reports on file and provide copies to card issuers, lenders, and hiring managers based on requests. The Fair Credit Reporting act has a strict limit on who can check your credit and under what circumstances. The law ensures that only business entities with a specific legitimate purpose, not members of the general public, can check your credit without written permission. The three main credit bureaus in the US are Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion Furniture. A furnisher, also known as a data furnisher, is an entity that reports information about borrowers to credit reporting agencies, which may include credit bureaus, tenant screening companies, check verification services, and medical information services. Furnishers are typically creditors, lenders and collection agencies, but they may include other entities. When engaged in credit repair, individuals or credit repair organizations dispute information provided by the bureaus or the furnishers. Dispute a dispute is the legal process for a person to question the validity of any information that appears on their credit reports. We are given this right by law under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The dispute process is all done by mail and the borrower must identify specific inaccurate, incomplete or outdated information and demand that it be deleted from their credit reports. And these letters are called dispute letters. Also, I might add that the reason we do this by paper mail is because when you dispute online at the bureaus, you are actually waving away your rights. So always dispute by mail and you're going to have much better results. The act of sending in a dispute on your credit report, it does not hurt your score. However, the outcome of the dispute often causes your score to adjust higher in most cases, but sometimes lower depending on the circumstances especially if you're disputing and removing an old established account. The CFPB, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is the U.S. government agency responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector. They make the rules when disputing with the bureaus or furnishers. Filing complaints with the CFPB is a common and effective credit repair tactic. Let's do a quick recap. A borrower asks for credit. A creditor provides it. What the borrower does with that credit becomes their credit history, and a detailed summary of that history is a credit report. An inquiry is when any entity asks to see that report. A credit score is a grade given to that report with the intention of showing how likely it is that the borrower will repay future debts. The credit bureaus determine those scores based on information provided to them by the furnishers. When the bureaus or the furnishers use inaccurate, incomplete or outdated information, a borrower files a dispute and the CFPB makes sure that everyone plays by the rules. And those are the top 10 credit repair terms that everyone needs to know. Again, if you're looking to repair your own credit, I hope you have a better understanding of how the process works. And if you have a credit repair business, feel free to use this video as inspiration to make your own educational materials. When more people know these terms, that'll mean less confusion and fewer people intimidated by the credit repair process. And just a reminder, this podcast is brought to you by Credit Hero Score. Credit Hero Score is the only credit monitoring service that integrates directly with Credit Repair Cloud. Get instant access to your credit reports and scores by signing up for a seven day trial for only $1. Sign up right now at creditheroscore.com and now for my favorite part of the episode. Each week I feature one of our credit heroes inside our credit repair cloud, Facebook so you can see firsthand what real people are doing as they launch and grow their business. And today's spotlight is on Richard C. Richard recently took our Credit Hero challenge and a few days ago he posted a message saying hey guys, I thought I would share my social media posts with you that I just had made. Please feel free to take them and make them your own with your own brand and colors. I hope you like them. And Richard attached 15 template designs for social media posts for everyone in the community to use. Isn't that amazing? Thank you Richard. You already understand what it means to be a Credit Hero. Please keep us updated on your progress. Remember, good things happen to good people who work hard and I'll end by saying if you don't already have a credit repair cloud account, check it out. 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Be sure to visit my blog if you'd like to read the show notes and if you have a question that you'd like me to answer, drop it in the comment section and I'll be sure to answer it during a later episode. And remember, the more people who understand the language of credit repair, the more lives will be changed. Keep Changing Lives Want a fast track to creating an amazing business that helps people, changes lives and makes you a great living in the process? Then I'd like to invite you to my free online training@creditrepaircloud.com freetraining. In this free training you will learn how to get clients willing to pay you even if you're just starting out, how to get easy credit repair results without being an expert, and how to get all the clients you'll ever need without paying for advertising. Again, this training is absolutely free. Just visit creditrepaircloud. Com Freetraining.