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When you start to think about your credit report, do you feel tense? Ill? Gloomy? Embarassed? Well, you have to rise above those feelings. Rather, start working on your problems and get them fixed. Nothing is going to fix itself.

You need to sit down with a copy of your credit report. Review it thoroughly. Try to determine what is reporting inaccurately and what isn’t. Try to determine what you can pay down and what you can’t. Try to determine if there is any item or account on there that you you aren’t sure what it is? Maybe it belongs to Junior? Or your parent? This is very common when fathers and sons have the same name. Stuff gets mixed up. Brothers with very close social security numbers sometimes run into problems too. It can happen that parents use their kids’ social security numbers for things they shouldn’t. Don’t worry! Everything can be repaired, but you have to put in some effort. It isn’t going to happen for you.

So what do you do? Where should you start?

Get your credit report and read over it carefully and decide which things you are going to dispute. (Dispute means that you are going to generate a credit repair letter to the credit reporting agencies telling them that you disagree with something that is reporting.) Once you decide what will need to dispute – dispute it! generate the credit repair letters. If you are usure what to write – go to the Federal Trade Commission’s site that talks about credit repair. Just do a simple Google search for “FTC credit repair”. That site should come up as the first link. Review it. It only takes a few minutes. After you review that, you can go to CreditBlossom.com. This site really follows all the advice of the FTC and gives you everything you need to handle self credit repiar – and it is completely free to all consumers.