Credit report is the record of your financial behavior. It represents all your financial transactions and check how you are paying the debits that you have. If you are paying all your loans and credit card bills on time your report will be good.The reporting agencies obtain and maintain your credit data and keep them in record for reference. You have a right to get free credit report once in a year. You can get that via mail or post and you can request through phone also.In united states they have a central web site Annualcreditreport.com. You can also call a free phone number for the information. You can get via postal mail but they take long time for delivery.
To order credit report via phone you can call 1-877-322-8228 and follow automated menu for instructions. You can also send a request through mail by sending a proper filled request to Annual Credit Report Request Service P.O. Box 105281 Atlanta, GA 30348-5281.
Some times the adverse remarks on your report may have created problems to you like a job or credit is rejected. Then you are entitled to get the second free report in a year. If the agencies demands for extra proof like driving license to issue report you have to be bit careful as they include that information also in the report. They only need the proof for your name and date of birth and you can blur the number on driving license to protect that data. The same is true when you give your telephone bill as a proof and your number will be displayed in the report and it is available for creditors. If you do not want calls from creditors using telephone bill as proof is not advisable.
To order credit report via phone you can call 1-877-322-8228 and follow automated menu for instructions. You can also send a request through mail by sending a proper filled request to Annual Credit Report Request Service P.O. Box 105281 Atlanta, GA 30348-5281.
Some times the adverse remarks on your report may have created problems to you like a job or credit is rejected. Then you are entitled to get the second free report in a year. If the agencies demands for extra proof like driving license to issue report you have to be bit careful as they include that information also in the report. They only need the proof for your name and date of birth and you can blur the number on driving license to protect that data. The same is true when you give your telephone bill as a proof and your number will be displayed in the report and it is available for creditors. If you do not want calls from creditors using telephone bill as proof is not advisable.