willingtocope

DV = debt validation Look in the "PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING" forum...most of the abbreviations are explained ther.

"Reassigned" is one of those "weasel" words the credit industry uses. It can mean sold but normally it means the current owner just contracted with another collector to hassle you. Who was the original creditor?

As far as I know, there is no limit. FL may have a law, but I doubt it.

There are a bazillion different credit scoring algorithms. The score consumers are allowed to see is the "sucker score". It predicts whether or not a lender will make money off you by charging late fees and interest. Don't sweat it. You did the right thing. Monitor your reports for inaccurate info. Ignore the scores.

myfico is directed towards the sucker score. As long as you only have one zero balance credit card, it won't hurt your mortgage score.

There are many different FICO scoring algorithms. The one consumers see is the "sucker" score. It predicts if you will use credit cards and pay interest and occasional late fees. The mortgage broker gets a different model. And, yes, "mortgage shopping" (i.e., multiple inquiries in a short time frame) does lower your mortgage scores.

New credit will help you get new credit cards. Doesn't help so much with a mortgage. The scores that CRA's report to the consumer are "sucker" scores.

You est approach would be to contact the negatives. Try to negotiate a "pay for delete". Even if they won't deal, pay them off. Wait. In 6 months or so, your scores will climb. Don't take out new credit.

I would ignore them. Keep monitoring your reports. If the TL shows up changed, then maybe contact them...but, if its paid in full, i wouldn't worry about it.

In general, if you're not the one responsible for paying the bill, you're probably not going to get a boost in your credit score. On the other hand, if the fine print in your credit card agreement says "if the primary holder doesn't pay the bill, you will"...you might have another problem. How financially secure is your employer? You say these are cash cards? Again, in general, cash cards are not reported as normal credit cards...you can't use them to charge stuff if there's no money in the account. Bottom line...these are probably not going to help your scores even if they do get reported.

Also, by giving employees access to this account, you've taken it from a "personal" account to a "business" account. Business accounts are not covered by most of the regulations we discuss. You've kind of wandered into the gotcha arena...if you do try to claim its personal, Crap 1 is going to pursue the fraud angle because you have multiple authorized users who are probably not related to you.

Gee...Kelvin's email address is 4ficorepair @ gmail ...I'm gonna guess he might be the "ethical hacker" in question. Also, while a white hat hacker MIGHT be able to get thru to one of the credit reporting sites, it unlikely he could break into all of them.

Look at https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1779.pdf ... its probably not a yes or no question.

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