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Happy New Year everyone!
I am looking forward to 2018 because my bankruptcy will hit the 2 year mark on Jan 3rd and that means I can then be considered for a mortgage. I have been working this past year to improve my scores and am sitting nicely at 660+ (according to the MyFICO report I get each month) so that puts me well above the minimum requirements for my CU. I got my free credit reports late last spring but am thinking that I will pay for them here after the beginning of the year for one last peek because I want to start house hunting when spring rolls around and I want to see how they now look. I remember getting a 3-in-1 credit report years ago and I loved how convenient it was to look at and compare things so I thought if I was going to pay out of pocket anyway I may as well do it in that form. Is there any reason I shouldn't? Will I still be able to dipute inaccuracies okay if any snuck on or will it cause problems because I didn't get it directly from each CRA?
TIA for any tips or suggestions you might be able to share.
If you have the myFICO Ultimate product and are getting your mortgage scores every month, doesn't that mean you are getting a 3B credit report every month already? You talk about getting a 3B report "years ago."
Sorry that I was unclear. I do get the 3B report from MyFICO every month.
The report I got years ago was different, I got it from one of the actual bureaus (I don't recall which one but when I was looking to see if they still exist I did see one from Experian) and it seemed to have more details, similar to how my free reports from each of the 3 shows more. The main reason I was thinking of ordering one is because when I look at my 3B report on here each month, I keep seeing that I had a missed payment in the past month [image below] and that is what is holding my TU score down (beside the BK, of course) but I haven't had missed payment in years (rather than including all I will just include an image of the snapshot below). I look on the MyFICO 3B report and all of my accounts show green and nothing has been late, certainly not missed, so I thought maybe something was showing up at the actual bureaus and not here because I don't understand what it means when it says that.
Yeah, I would certainly pull your true TU report and go over it with a fine tooth comb. Depending on what state you are in, that may be free, even if you already got your TU report from AnnualCreditReport.com < 12 months ago.
That negative flag seems to say that this most recent missed payment happened very recently ("0 months ago"). Is it possible that you have a loan that you think you are making on time payments to, but somehow the loan issuer or TU thinks you got behind on by a couple dollars a long while back, and therefore from that perspective you are always late each month?
Also worth exploring is pulling your credit reports from a couple other sources and see what they say. For example Credit Check Total offers a $1 trial offer that will give you a nice 3B report (you can cancel the offer the day after you get the report if you want).
Likewise WalletHub offers free daily TU reports. Karma offers weekly reports.