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rtoshow
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OK....which system is recommended ?

After reading all of the info here over & over, I'm still not sure which way to go. I keep thinking about true credit just to be able to monitor daily, but I am wondering, do many lenders pull TU ? It seems to me that most use Experian or Equifax but I may be wrong. I want to be able to check out every avenue of my credit as much as possible, dispute if necessary easily & do it as inexpensively as possible. Am I asking too much ? Thanks for any input
Tim
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fused
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Re: OK....which system is recommended ?



rtoshow wrote:
After reading all of the info here over & over, I'm still not sure which way to go. I keep thinking about true credit just to be able to monitor daily, but I am wondering, do many lenders pull TU ? It seems to me that most use Experian or Equifax but I may be wrong. I want to be able to check out every avenue of my credit as much as possible, dispute if necessary easily & do it as inexpensively as possible. Am I asking too much ? Thanks for any input

If you are an Amex cardholder, you can try CreditSecure at Amex's website and it's less than $12 a month. You can pull all three reports everday.
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Anonymous
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Re: OK....which system is recommended ?



fused111 wrote:

If you are an Amex cardholder, you can try CreditSecure at Amex's website and it's less than $12 a month. You can pull all three reports everday.

Fused, with CreditSceure are you receiving your FICO scores daily too?  And, you have to be an Amex cardholder?
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fused
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Re: OK....which system is recommended ?



MsRN2000 wrote:


fused111 wrote:

If you are an Amex cardholder, you can try CreditSecure at Amex's website and it's less than $12 a month. You can pull all three reports everday.

Fused, with CreditSceure are you receiving your FICO scores daily too?  And, you have to be an Amex cardholder?


No they are FAKOs just like TC's are but its a solid monitoring service. I do believe you have to be an AmEx cardholder.
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Anonymous
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Re: OK....which system is recommended ?

I like their reports as do many others, TC is not laid out as niceSmiley Happy  Must remember to switch, right now I'm a TC subscriber
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fused
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Re: OK....which system is recommended ?



beach123 wrote:
I like their reports as do many others, TC is not laid out as niceSmiley Happy  Must remember to switch, right now I'm a TC subscriber


Ditto, I really hate TC's layout!
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Anonymous
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Re: OK....which system is recommended ?



fused111 wrote:
No they are FAKOs just like TC's are but its a solid monitoring service. I do believe you have to be an AmEx cardholder.


Cool.  Thanks for the info.
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rtoshow
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Re: OK....which system is recommended ?

I'm not an Amex card holder, so that one is out for me
Tim
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Anonymous
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Re: OK....which system is recommended ?



rtoshow wrote:
After reading all of the info here over & over, I'm still not sure which way to go. I keep thinking about true credit just to be able to monitor daily, but I am wondering, do many lenders pull TU ? It seems to me that most use Experian or Equifax but I may be wrong. I want to be able to check out every avenue of my credit as much as possible, dispute if necessary easily & do it as inexpensively as possible. Am I asking too much ? Thanks for any input


Tim,
TC shows all 3 credit reports and they seem to be accurate.  You could use these reports to monitor how well your efforts are paying off.  The scores thay give you will show an up or down trend, but they are not true ficos.  I use it to dispute, PFD and send out good wills.  If I am successful, it will show on the reports.  I think many people here buy their FICO's from this site, use TC to monitor and then when you see those scores change in a big way, they buy their real scores again.  Hopefully the trend will be the same, but I understand it doesn't always work that way.  Do you already have Scorewatch through this site?
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rtoshow
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Re: OK....which system is recommended ?

I'm currently not using anything. I'm just trying to get the best bang for my buck.
Tim
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