Fix Credit Score by Negotiating Un-Paid Collection Accounts
Payment history accounts for 35% of your FICO score, so in order to fix credit score you want to really pay attention to those un-paid charge off accounts or accounts sent to collection agencies. Since your credit score is highly impacted by how you have paid your debt, having charge off or collection accounts in your credit report adversely affects your credit scores.
What’s the best way of dealing with collection agencies to lower Collection Accounts for pennies in order to fix credit score ?
There are two things you can do with collection accounts in order to fix your credit scores:
1- Negotiate the Charge Off / Collections accounts for cents on the dollar.
2- Have a credit restoration company have the reporting agencies delete those accounts by finding loopholes in the steps the credit reporting agencies (Trans Union, Equifax, Experian) took before reporting those negative items in your credit report.
Let’s start by addressing how you can negotiate un-paid collection accounts for pennies on the dollar. You see, when you have gone from 30, 60,90, or even 120 days without making your payments, the original creditor (Macy’s, Chevron MC, etc) who offer you credit gives up upon you, the mark the unpaid account the debt as a “Bad Debt” in their books and they report your account as “Charge Off” in your credit report.
The original creditor come back and sells the “Charge Off” account to a collection agency and from that point on you no longer hear from the original creditors but instead you start receiving nasty phone calls or letters from the annoying credit collection agencies.
Now, when the original creditor sold the “Charge Off” account to the collector, the account was probably sold for 50% of the value. For example, let’s say that you defaulted on a visa credit card with a balance of $1,000, the charge off account valued at $1,000 would probably be sold for $500 to a collection agency the first time around. The collection agency will then come back and try to collect over $500 dollars from you… this is how they make money their money.
So, what happens when the first collection agency can’t reach you or can’t collect anything from you for a while, they will try to sell your collection account along with a bunch of other collection accounts to another credit collection agency but this time, your account will be sold for 25% of the original value of the collection… so, if they sent you to collections for the first time for $1,000, the first time your account was sold to a collector it was probably sold for $500, then, the second time it was sold, it was probably sold for $250 and if this process repeats again for a third time, your account will be sold for 10% of the original value or $100.
Here is where debt negotiation comes handy to fix credit score! Knowing this valuable information is helpful when you sit on the negotiating table with the collection agencies. Now you have the knowledge needed negotiate your $1,000 collection account for a measly $150 or for $200.
Now, after you have settled the debt, make sure to have the collection agency give you a “settlement letter” and even though the collection agency might have told you during the negotiation time that they would delete your “paid collection” account from your credit report, they never do, simply because they are not “Credit Reporting Agencies”…. They are collection agencies and their job is to collect!
Fortunately, a credit restoration company like Ucan2 Financial Solutions can help you have the credit reporting agencies delete those “paid collection” or even “un-paid” collections from your credit report by enforcing your right under the “Fair Credit Reporting Act.”
For more information on how Ucan2 Financial Solutions can help you negotiate debt to fix fico score, and to read more information about the “Fair Credit Reporting Act”, visit our website at http://www.ucan2financialsolutions.org


