topic Re: Lenders who pull ARS? in General Credit Topics

Lenders who pull ARS?

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 18:27:08 GMT

I am just curious about who pulls ARS. I got a letter today that says in the last year, my ARS report has been pulled 8 times. That's a bit more than I would have expected and of course they have a stupid form you have to mail in or fax so ordering my report would be a bit of pain. I'm assuming that US Bank probably makes up 2 of them but I have no idea who the other 6 would be.

Re: Lenders who pull ARS?

calyx — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 18:42:39 GMT

Discover and USBank pulled ARS on me.

Re: Lenders who pull ARS?

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 18:48:02 GMT

@calyx wrote:
Discover and USBank pulled ARS on me.

Yeah Disco would have been last March. I know they pull ARS as well and they were the one on the notification I got a year ago. This one is 7/1/2018 to 6/30/2019 so I'm a bit confused. I believe Barclays uses them so that would be number 3.

Re: Lenders who pull ARS?

calyx — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 18:50:06 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@calyx wrote:
Discover and USBank pulled ARS on me.
Yeah Disco would have been last March. I know they pull ARS as well and they were the one on the notification I got a year ago. This one is 7/1/2018 to 6/30/2019 so I'm a bit confused. I believe Barclays uses them so that would be number 3.

I am kind of curious to pull it again to see who else might have been poking about in my ARS file, but it was fairly empty when I did check.

Re: Lenders who pull ARS?

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 19:02:50 GMT

I am not super concerned about it, at least not enough to mail them a copy of my drivers license and social security number to get the report. It actually says at least 8 inquiries so for all I know, everyone pulled it.

Re: Lenders who pull ARS?

Peazmom — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 19:23:27 GMT

What does ARS stand for?

Re: Lenders who pull ARS?

calyx — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 19:30:55 GMT

@Peazmom wrote:
What does ARS stand for?

Advanced Resolution Services - it's one of the smaller CRAs.
You can see a list here: https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_consumer-reporting-companies-list.pdf

Re: Lenders who pull ARS?

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 18:13:17 GMT

Has anyone seen denials as a result of freezing ARS? Or other small CRA’s?

Re: Lenders who pull ARS?

Curious_George2 — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 00:21:57 GMT

Got my ARS report today. It's different than all the others I've seen. It doesn't have any of the typical account-level info like payment history, credit limits, etc. My report was almost completely empty, but it looks like it's designed to be a record of fraudulent use of the consumer's social security number. That's interesting, important, and different from what the Big 3 focus on.

Anyway, it's a little tricky to answer OP's question because the report doesn't use the typical hard/soft terminology to classify inquiries, but basically I can see that BofA, Chase and Dow Chemical Employees Credit Union pulled ARS in the past year or so when I apped for new cards with them. Apps I have made within the last 2 years that did not pull ARS include NFCU, Capital One and Amex. I have never apped for US Bank, Discover, of Barclays, so I can't comment on those.