Enabling outstanding results—

from credit repair efforts year after year.

Nothing has as severe an impact on your credit score as negative items. A single 30-day late payment can pull your score down by 60 to 110 points. Not surprisingly, the removal of questionable negative items has proven to be the most effective way to improve a credit score.

Fueled by 19 years of experience serving over 1/2 million credit repair clients, our firm has developed a vast arsenal of tools and strategies that have proven to be quite effective at removing negative items. In 2009 alone, our clients saw 1,013,469 negative items removed from their credit reports.**

Our results prove it can be done. From late payments to charge-offs to bankruptcies, our firm has assisted in the removal of every single type of negative credit item. The list below details all 2009 removals by item type.

408Acct in Counseling
499Acct in Dispute
9,713Bankruptcy
127Cannot Locate
158,531Charge Off
974Civil Claim
485,147Collection
2,567Foreclosure
95Garnishment
39,195Incl. in Bankruptcy
28,564Judgment
213,538Late Payment
17,292Lien
32,442Other Negatives
5,127Repossession
19,250Settlement Accepted
1,013,469 2009 Total Removals

Q4 Results are in! Download the full list of all 254,553 negative items removed for Q4 (Oct-Dec) 2009. Each listing shows the creditor's name, type of negative item, and removal date. If that doesn't satisfy your appetite for numbers, we're not sure what will.

Removed View detailed removal lists:
2009 1,013,469 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
2008 665,515 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
2007 602,879 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
2006 609,443 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
2005 667,366 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
2004 585,214 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
2003 354,714 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
2002 269,196 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

Items removed in 2009**

1,013,469

Q4 2009 removals

254,553

Q4 2009 Monthly removals

84,851

Q4 2009 Daily removals

2,766

Q4 2009 Hourly removals

115

Can your negative
items be removed?
Absolutely, so long as you have the grounds to request their removal. You have the right to question any credit information you feel to be inaccurate, unverifiable, misleading, untimely, unclear, ambiguous, or incomplete.

Further consumer rights also allow you to contact your creditors directly and request (or demand) that damaging information be removed from your reports.
 
What is “accurate?”
Accurate is 100% free from error, and is in no way unclear, ambiguous, untimely, incomplete, or misleading. In short, accurate is fair.

The black-and-white nature of a credit listing doesn't always tell a fair story. Courts have ruled that even though some credit listings may be technically accurate, they are not truly accurate based on circumstance.
 
What is “verifiable?”
Verifiable simply means that credit information can be verified with the source. If a creditor is unwilling, unable, or unavailable to verify that a credit item is accurate and timely, it must be removed.
 
Who decides if your
items are questionable?
You do. You alone can decide whether a credit item should be questioned or not. Only you know whether an item is not only accurate, but fair.

Our firm does not advise that any consumer, client or not, abuse their right to fair credit by disputing an item in bad faith (knowing it to be 100% accurate and timely.)
 
Can anything be done to
remove accurate items?
If you feel a negative credit item is 100% accurate and timely, you do not have the grounds to question this item with bureaus. Only the passage of time can assure bureau removal.

However, just because an item cannot be questioned with credit bureaus does not mean it cannot be removed from your credit reports.

As the originating source of credit report information, your creditors may revise or remove furnished information whenever they see fit. In that regard, you have a number of rights when it comes to dealing with your creditors which can be leveraged to work toward a favorable credit solution.

Our firm's Concord-level services include a cadre of interventions which leverage these consumer rights.
 

“I have had your service for over a year now. I have a new truck at a great interest rate and a loan at a great interest rate. All creditors rave about how great my credit is. It sounds really weird but i am getting the credit now! Thank you so much!”

S.S., Lexington client*
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*Important: While the testimonials and other information on this website may be exciting, Lexington Law promises only to perform the steps we've agreed to in each client's case and to charge each month only for steps already completed. As with any legal work, no outcome is promised. Your results will vary. **The number of items removed represents the combined removals for all three credit bureaus. For example, if a single questionable negative item is removed from all three credit reports, it is counted as three separate removals.
© 2010 Lexington Law®. All rights reserved. John C. Heath, Attorney at Law, PLLC, d/b/a Lexington Law. Lexington Law is a group of law firms that may also be referred to throughout this site as "Lexington," "Lexington Law Firm," "we," "us," or "our firm". The number of items removed represents the combined results of the group.
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