The key is that it will
stay on your credit bureau for 3 years from completion.
A record that you filed a bankruptcy does
stay on your credit bureau report but that does not mean you are still considered bankrupt.
Not exact matches
(If a lender does submit the short - sale information to the
credit bureaus, the report will
stay on the seller's report for seven years, however.)
no longer than means that creditors, collection agencies or
credit bureaus can remove any negative listing they choose to within the seven year period; it doesn't have to
stay on for seven years.
Account information that reflects positively
on you can
stay on your report indefinitely, but
credit bureaus must remove negative information from your report after seven years (10 for a bankruptcy).
Doug Hoyes: So, first time bankruptcy if you have no surplus income, no issues, you get discharged in nine months, there's another six years with Equifax (could be seven years with a different
credit bureau), that the note that says you went bankrupt
stays on your
credit report.
All records
stay on the Irish
Credit Bureau database for five years once the account has been done.
All debt that gets included in your debt management plan through a
credit counselling agency will be rated as R7 and it will
stay on your
credit report as such until three years after you've completed your debt management plan, depending
on the
credit bureau.
It is up to you to
stay on task and follow up with the
credit bureaus.
Not only will many lenders charge late fees if those payments aren't there
on time, but any late payments will be reported to the
credit bureaus and
stay on your
credit report for seven years, even if you later pay the bill in full.
You can establish a good payment history with the
credit bureaus after
staying current
on your
credit card payments for only two to three consecutive months.
Stay on top of your
credit bureau disputes.
It's important that consumers
stay on top of their
credit reports to avoid any mistakes made by the creditors and the
credit bureaus.
Here's how long the negative information collected by the
credit bureaus is likely to
stay on your
credit report:
Request a
credit report: You are entitled to one free report each year from the national
credit bureaus: Equifax and Trans Union — allowing you to
stay on top of any suspicious activity.