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Categories: Credit Tips
Before you run off to pay your collector to boost your credit score, remember these tips: Once a collector gets your money, they’ll forget about you the next day. Any verbal agreements you might’ve made with them will be quickly forgotten. Make sure everything is in writing! For example, tell a collector to write the […]
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Categories: Motivation
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Categories: Credit Resources, Credit Tips
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Categories: Credit Resources
Are you being hounded by a debt collection agency? Read over these 20 tips to improve your debt collection negotiations before you pick up the phone and speak to one.
The Big Bad Collector
Categories: Credit Resources
We’ve all been there. We get a call or a letter from a collection agency demanding we pay an overdue bill. Right. Now! Let’s face it, collection companies are the worst! They hound and hound us until they get what they want: our money. And, well, that’s their job, so we can’t get too upset […]