Just like regular people with various physical ailments, your bad credit may also be ailing and in need of some first aid. The problem is that most put simply put a band aid on their credit score, which leaves the bad credit score intact and does not attack the root problem, which can bring your credit score back to good health with a respectable number.
Your credit score is calculated by the credit bureaus, and each of the three major credit reporting agencies TransUnion, Equifax, and Experian will undoubtedly calculate a different score for you. This is because they do not share information between them, and they only have access to the credit information that is reported to them. Your Visa company probably only reports to one of them, your MasterCard company reports to another one, and that loan you had problems with via the credit union a few years ago reports to yet a different one. The only credit references that likely report to all three of them are the big ticket items such as your mortgage loan.



