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How To Find Bad Credit Lenders
First, what is a bad credit lender?
A bad credit lender is normally a small company, not a bank, that offers loan programs to individuals or business owners that have no credit or bad credit.
Generally speaking, banks only offer loans to individuals or business owners that have good credit.
A credit score of 600 or above would be rated as having good credit.
You maybe thinking, do you have good credit? The best way to find that out is to order your credit report and score online.
Another way to find out if you have poor credit is to ask yourself:
Have you been late on your payments more than three times over the last 6 months?
Do you have any closed accounts on your credit report?
Have you ever filed for bankruptcy?
Do you have any judgments on your report?
If you have answered yes for any of the questions above, you have no credit or bad credit.
What About Loans From A Bank?
Banks are not in the business of giving individuals loans that have no credit or bad credit. If you have no credit or poor credit, you must look for companies that offer loans to individuals that have bad credit.
You would just make your credit worst by applying with a bank, because your credit score is reduced every time you are turned down.
How To Find A Bad Credit Lender?
The best way to find these types of lenders is to go online and purchase a list of poor credit lenders. I am not aware of any websites that offer this information for free.
Order a list of lenders and contact each one by phone, to go over what they can offer.
It would help if you can get a copy of your credit report before contacting a lender. This would make their job easier because you can just tell them what is on your credit report. They could immediately tell you if they can help you to get approved for a loan.
Be sure to tell each company what is on your credit report. This will save you and the company a great deal of time.
Do not apply with companies that only want to check your credit before they will talk to you.
Even if they were not willing to review your credit report over the phone, you could still ask them what type of credit do they accept. Some companies can tell you up front that they do not accept individuals that have an R9 on their credit report.
Do not apply to a lender that charges an application fee. It is illegal for a lender to charge an up front application fee. A lot of companies that charge an application fee are not lenders. They are marketing companies that are just going to send your application to a lender.
A lot of people try using their local newspaper to find a bad credit lender. This is not a good idea, because you will only find marketing companies that charge a fee to accept your application. Once you have sent in your money and application, they would forward your application to a lender.
Take the time to go online to find the best current list of bad credit lenders.
Fix Wrong Information In Your Credit Report — TODAY (Page 1 of 2)
Other than eating, sleeping, and breathing, one of the most important things you should be doing on a regular basis is ensuring that the data in your credit report is accurate. That is such a simple statement, yet it is ignored by the vast majority of consumers, probably due to several factors, such as:
* Consumers seem to accept the fact that errors will self correct in a reasonable period of time, where in reality nothing could be further from the truth.
* Consumers dont know how to find out if there is wrong information on their credit report, which impacts their total credit score negatively.
* Consumers dont realize that having a low credit score (lower than what they deserve, if the information maintained by the credit bureaus was accurate) can impact a huge number of factors in their everyday lives.
* Consumers dont realize that studies have shown that the MAJORITY of credit reports on consumers and businesses have errors and inaccuracies.
Your credit score is used by anyone loaning you money such as credit card companies, home loan lenders, auto loan lenders and finance companies. You need to find out what your credit score is before you talk to any lender in case there is something on your report that they may question. Your credit score is the actual number ranging from 300 to 850 that lenders use to judge your creditworthiness and the interest rate theyll charge you. Having a credit score lower than what you actually deserve could mean the difference between getting approved for a loan or credit card, or being denied. If you are approved, a lower credit score can mean the difference of the lender assessing a 14% interest rate or a 6% interest rate, which can cost you hundreds and even thousands of dollars more at the end of the loan period.
The big three credit bureaus are required to give you a free copy of your credit report annually, or any time that you have been denied credit based on information that they provided to a potential lender. It may take some time to get through to the credit bureaus to request a copy of your credit report, but this is well worth your time to do so. Be sure to get a copy of it from all three of them, since some lenders only report to one or two of them. This means that the information on your credit report from one credit bureau is almost certainly not going to be identical to the data from another credit bureau.
If you notice any errors on your report, you should complete a dispute form with the credit bureau. When they send you a copy of your credit report, they will usually include instructions on how to file a dispute for erroneous or inaccurate information. Some experts say that if you are disputing say 5 different items, you should file 5 separate dispute forms so each one can be addressed specifically. There is some merit to that discussion, since the credit bureaus may view a dispute consisting of many items as frivolous and not take appropriate action to correct the information.