Credit report?
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Mortgage lenders pull all three bureaus and use the middle score to assign interest rates.
Your credit file is yours for life, you can not get a new one. The only thing you can do is try and clean yours up over time to raise your scores.
I wouldn't mess with a credit repair service. What you can do is dispute negative items on your credit yourself. This generally gets 1 or 2 items removed. You can keep disputing until it's all gone, but that doesn't always work after the initial request to remove. This process can take a while. Depends on how much information is removed the first time. I have used one report to dispute information on others, especially if I have something removed from one, I use that documentation to have it removed from others. It requires patience.
your score will vary between the 3 credit reporting agencies so it is going to depend on which agency the loan company uses to pull the reports. The easiest way to bring your credit up is to go to annualcreditreport.com and request a report from one of the agencies(this will not count as a hit on your credit). take a look at it and find out what is bringing your score down (collections, being more than 30 days late on any payment, civil judgements, etc.) and try to take care of anything negative on your report. That will raise your score. unfortunately it can take awhile for your score to come up a significant amount. For example, if you pay off something negative, it can take 2 months for the negative item to show as being paid off.
The credit score is only as good as the information on the report. Each of the companies do not have the same information so the score will be different. A range of the 40 points is not uncommon. This is why lenders rarely use just the highest one. They will either take an average of the 3, use the middle one, or sometimes use the lower one.
However, even a 610 is still considered Sub-Prime and with this you will be paying higher interest and fees. You should work on finding out why your score is low.
Do you have incorrect information. If so you need to dispute it to have it removed
Do you have charge-off/collection accounts. If so you need to work with the company to pay off the accounts
Do you have a high utilization ratio. That is the amount of available credit vs used credit. Ideally they want to see this under 30%. So if you have $10,000 in total credit available you should ideally not be using more than $3,000
Oh and there is NO legal way to get a new credit file. You need to take the inititive and pull your credit report on your own. This does not effect your credit score/rating in any way. You are allowed 1 free per year from each of the 3 main companies(TransUnion, Equifax, Experian) from
With such a credit score, (610 is not really high...), your interest rate will be high.
I'd wait 1 year or 2 for my credit score to improve.
During that time, save some money and pay all your bills on time - you'll save thousands in a few years, thanks to the rate you'll get.
Good luck !
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