The public records
section of your credit report lists information gleaned from court records and other public documents, including bankruptcies, foreclosures, judgments and liens.
When you file a consumer proposal there will be a note in the Legal
Items section of your credit report that notes the date of filing, and the name of your consumer proposal administrator.
Most consumers won't have legal judgments, liens or foreclosures listed in the
third section of credit report but double check everything listed in the personal information section and credit section since it can affect your credit score.
In short, you want to make sure the «Public Records»
section of your credit report is spotless.
A credit account history is
a section of your credit report that provides detailed information on the history of your credit, which will include information on your credit activity for approximately the last 10 years.
Here's your glimmer of hope if
this section of your credit report is crowded: Negative judgments do fall off your credit report over time.
Judgments and bankruptcies will both appear under
this section of your credit report and both can do significant damage to your FICO score.
Your employer's contact information may appear under the «Employment History»
section of your credit report.
Review
every section of each credit report.
The downside to bankruptcy is that it's entered in the public records
section of your credit report and stays there for probably ten years.
The only ways you can dramatically boost your credit score within a month or two is by cleaning up the public records
section of your credit report (as discussed above), paying down a substantial amount of debt if you are close to your credit limits (also discussed above), or getting a creditor or the credit bureau to stop reporting negative information that is more than 7 years old.
Tax liens, judgments and bankruptcies are all listed under the «Public Records»
section of your credit report.
If a consumer has filed bankruptcy then he should check both the public records
section of his credit reports to ensure that the bankruptcy itself is being reported properly and he should review each of the individual accounts which were included in his bankruptcy for errors as well.
Information regarding overdue debt from collection agencies usually appears in the «public records»
section of a credit report.
Next comes the public records
section of your credit report.
Both Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 cases will be reported under the public record
section of your credit report.
Additionally, the bankruptcy filing and bankruptcy discharge listings themselves (separate from those included in bankruptcy listings) will also appear in the court records
section of your credit report.
All three credit agencies — Experian, Trans Union, and Equifax — will report information related to installment accounts in the credit account history
section of your credit report.
Judgments, tax liens, repossessions, and foreclosures appear in the public records
section of your credit report and also have a detrimental impact on your credit score.
Credit Inquiries — although there are two types of inquiries (hard and soft), only hard inquiries should appear in
this section of your credit report.
At that point, the judgment and its amount appear in the «public records»
section of your credit report.
So it will show up on the «Public Information»
section of your credit reports, where it can remain for up to seven years.
A judgment can be reported for longer than seven years in the public records
section of the credit report.
Likely, you have a judgment which means this appears in your public record
section of the credit report.