Credit Repair Business Secrets

The 4 Things to Check on Every Credit Report (Before You Dispute)

Episode Summary

Learn how to audit a full credit report before you dispute a single item. Daniel Rosen breaks down why Round 1 decides every credit repair case and how the Simple Audit in Credit Repair Cloud reads the file for you.

Episode Notes

A credit report audit before Round 1 is the difference between fast credit repair results and months of wasted dispute rounds, and most Credit Heroes skip it.

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Daniel Rosen has spent more than 20 years in this business, and he sees the same mistake constantly. A Credit Hero opens a new client's report, sees a pile of negatives, grabs a template, and fires off disputes on everything at once. Thirty days later half of it comes back "verified," and the whole case stalls. The reason is simple: there was never a plan. Round 1 went out before anyone actually read the file.

That is what the audit fixes. Before you dispute a single item, you read the whole report top to bottom and check:

Personal info for old or mixed-up names, addresses and employers
The positive open accounts that are helping the file, so you know not to touch them
Credit utilization, which sometimes holds the score down more than the negatives do
The damage itself: late payments, charge-offs and collections
Experian, Equifax and TransUnion against each other, since they rarely match

The good news is you don't have to do any of that by hand. Inside Credit Repair Cloud, you click Import/Audit, pick your template, and the Simple Audit reads the report and lays it all out. You can even show that audit to a lead on a consultation so they can see exactly where they stand, which is what turns a lead into a paying client. Once you know the file, then you dispute, starting with verification and putting the burden of proof on the bureau or furnisher. From there you factually dispute the real errors with your proof behind them.

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Key Takeaways:

00:00 Intro

01:22 Why Skipping the Audit Kills Round One

03:22 The Audit Is Your Strategy. Not a Preliminary Step

04:24 Fast Results Build Your Business Without Spending on Ads

05:28 The Four Things to Check on Every Credit Report

05:42 Step 1. The Identity Layer

06:08 Step 2. What Is Helping. Protect the Good Accounts

06:42 Step 3. What Is the Damage

07:18 Step 4. The Cross-Check. Put All Three Bureaus Side by Side

07:46 How Credit Repair Cloud Does the Audit for You

08:42 Audit First. Then Dispute in the Right Order

09:22 Final Thoughts

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