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Step 1
Your credit report will show if you have been late on any payments to any loans you have or and credit cards. Your report will also show were you currently live and where you have lived in the past. It is important to have a high credit score but you also want to make sure that your the information on your credit report is accurate.
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Step 2
When a lender checks your credit report they usually will get the report form the three main agencies, Equifax, Experian and Transunion. It is important that you get your report from them at least once a year so you can check to make sure everything is accurate.
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Step 3
The good thing is that you are entitled to one free credit report every year form each agency so this makes it easy to keep track of.
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Step 4
If you find that there are some things on your credit report that you do not agree with then you can file a complaint with the credit agencies and they then have to verify the information in question. They will contact the person who reported the information and by law they have 30 days to respond. If they do not respond then the item must be removed from your report.
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Step 5
Remember that when you are monitoring your credit report that you always make sure that it is accurate.
