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So my credit score across the board is in the low 700s. I still have some debt to payoff, but over the past year it's gone from the low 600s.
Anyway, I use CreditSecure from AMEX for constant reporting and I pull my FICO report here 4-5 a year. So today I got an alert from CreditSecure saying "Potentially Negative Information" has posted to my account. I investigate and notice that my TU score (which was 707) is now down to (649) and under the "negative" section it says one of my accounts has had a late payment (30+ days past due) posted.
The problem is, I haven't paid late to any creditor and as of today, my accounts show current, paid on time. How can I found out which creditor reported as late if all are showing as "green - paid on time"?
myFICO hasn't sent me any credit alerts as of now, but now I'm going to be watching like crazy.
Ok, so I have 4 remaining reports I can pull here. I just used one and found a big issue... My previous TU score on FICO was 701, it is now 587.
FICO shows an account reporting as a 60-day late or "other" deliquency note. When I view the details on the account, it shows as "paid as agreed" but the account is also reporting as "Paying creditor on modified terms".
Long story short, it's been a long month... My company laid off a few employees and cut most of our salaries. I make 60% of what I used to earn, so I've been making do, but I have been relying on my Citi card to consolidate credit since I had a low APR with them. Last month, Citi raised one of my credit card APRs to 29.90% out of no where (I guess because I was now using this card a lot) and I called them to try and get it reduced. Considering my balance on the card was nearly $10K, I couldn't afford the minimum payments now. I never paid late to them and called them as soon as I saw the new minimum due.
Anyway, the representative was very helpful and said that they could reduce my APR to 14% for one year as long as I schedule my minimum amount due as an auto-deduction for that entire year in advance. I said no problem, it was setup and I was locked in to 14% for the entire year with an auto-deduction setup.
So now that I have this setup, the account is reporting as paid on time, but it has this note on my CR as "Paying creditor on modified terms". What can I do? Obviously, this is counting as a big negative!