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Need some help from any and all? I am down to one collection account on my credit report. The debt collector is good ole Asset Acceptance. I owed the original creditor, Beneficial, $10,000 and my DOFD is Feb 2008. (Business went south, lost my home, started a free-fall and making my way back now.) I disputed this collection account with all 3 CRA's in mid-May. The result was "verified" by all 3 CRA's. Additionally, Asset Acceptance has been actively reporting every month now with new, additional interest costs. The balance is now $13,712, I have no documentation from Asset Acceptance, nor have I ever received a phone call from them. I'm guessing I received documentation back in 2008, 2009, but I haven't been able to locate it and have nothing at this point. They are not harassing me. I compiled this original debt in the state of Oregon. SOL in Oregon is 6 years. I relocated to Nevada in 2012. Here the statute is 4 years. Either way, this debt is beyond SOL. I just mailed out CMRRR second attempt disputes of this account, but don't feel optimistic that this strategy will work. I have not mailed out an FOAD letter yet, as they are not attempting to collect from me........other than actively updating the tradeline on the 3 CRA's with additional interest. I have not DV'd them yet, as I'm not certain of the ramifications. I also have not attempted the 623 method. So I'm opening this up to suggestions. Obviously this account will drop off in mid-2015, but I'm wanting to get it off sooner. At minimum, I'd like to take an educated stab at attempting to get this account dropped from the Big 3 prior to next Summer. Let me hear some ideas and I will execute ASAP.

Good afternoon helpful forum folks. It seems everyone situation is a little different and i have had a lot of general advice, sometimes conflicting with others. I hope to receive some specific information to help me, by posting my situation. credit as of april 6 Equifax 535 transunion 536 experian 649 open 2 month of pos history car loan 40 month pos history bofa card 21 month pos history bofa card 14 month pos history cap one collection cavalry portfolio collection customer disp acct BOFA last reported 3/13$16,501 CFS 2 inc collection customer disp acct US BANK last reported 3/13 $9,917 collection ATT last reported 3/13 $836 collection DS Waters last reported 5/09 $274 Nordstrom FSB Charge off disp rptd rslvd- consumer disagrees legally pd in full for balance last reported 4/13 My goal is to buy a house in September under FHA My Questions- I disputed everything and it looks like Nordstrom agrees to the dispute, but is is still on my report. Is this still hurting my score, and if so what should i do? DS Waters has not reported in 4 years, should I still try to pay for delete? What steps can I take next, would the 623 method make sense? I had about 15 credit inquiries for my car loan and it is a new trade line. I was told that looking at your credit for the best deal would group the pulls to not negatively hurt my score. Yet my transunion score dropped 40 points. Were they wrong about multiple pulls and will my score go back up? Any recommendations for my specific situation? Thank you so much in advance

I've been going through this saga of trying to clean up my credit report and many thanks for the responses I have gotten. So there are a few tradelines on my credit reports regarding one student loan that I had defaulted on. Going back through my school records, I took it out in the period ending June of 2005. If I never paid that one (just took care of it a few months ago because I know they can sue for that forever) would it most likely be past the 7 year reporting period at this point? It is reported a few times under AES/NCT, National Collegiate Trust, and Citizen's Bank. They all list different dates, 2007, 2008, etc. However, from what I have read, if I originally defaulted on it in or around the middle of 2005 wouldn't ALL of the tradelines related to it be invalid at this time? Thank you for clarification on this.