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Which monitoring service allows you to see soft pulls and real time updates. Credit reports are a plus. I don't mind having subscriptions with multiple places.
Equifax i heard shows sp, but I am not 100% sure. (clarify please)
Does Experian product do this? freecreditreport.com? Anyone know?
Transunion?
@Anonymous wrote:Which monitoring service allows you to see soft pulls and real time updates. Credit reports are a plus. I don't mind having subscriptions with multiple places.
Equifax i heard shows sp, but I am not 100% sure. (clarify please)
Does Experian product do this? freecreditreport.com? Anyone know?
Transunion?
Equifax does show soft pulls. Nothing else I have does. (I suscribe to TransUnion and CreditCheckTotal, too.)
It seems rare that SP's are provided with services. Typically you'd need to pull directly from the CRA.
@takeshi74 wrote:It seems rare that SP's are provided with services. Typically you'd need to pull directly from the CRA.
ya, but I also want a instant update on changes. Not like some places, where it takes 3 days to receive an update. When you know it was reported days ago.
Venfors of commercial credit reports vastly simplify their administration by producing only one credit report that does not include soft pulls.
A soft pull is, by definition, one that is available for view only to the named consumer, and not any third party.
A standard report that excludes soft pulls can thus be sent without any concerns to both the consumer and others.
In distinction,the special site at annualcreditreport.com was implemented under official approval by the FTC for use ONLY by consumers requesting theri own credit reports, and thus is always safe in the inclusion of soft pulls.
That is the usual source of soft pulls, but has the obvious limitation of not serving regular monitoring.
@Anonymous wrote:
@takeshi74 wrote:It seems rare that SP's are provided with services. Typically you'd need to pull directly from the CRA.
ya, but I also want a instant update on changes. Not like some places, where it takes 3 days to receive an update. When you know it was reported days ago.
It takes the bureaus multiple days (sometimes a week) to update their database after a lender reports.
Can't fault the monitoring solutions on this one honestly. If you don't believe me look at the daily snapshots of any of the 3 base reports, then when you do get an update, look at the reporting date. It won't be today's date almost assuredly.
Revelate wrote:
It takes the bureaus multiple days (sometimes a week) to update their database after a lender reports.
..and sometimes longer than that. TU is 15 days overdue reporting an update for me. It can make it difficult to do point-in-time comparisons.
The CRAs immediately record inquiries - at least HP, but I would assume SP too. They should really leverage push notifications on their own services since they have a unique ability to do so.
@Anonymous wrote:@Revelate wrote:
It takes the bureaus multiple days (sometimes a week) to update their database after a lender reports...and sometimes longer than that. TU is 15 days overdue reporting an update for me. It can make it difficult to do point-in-time comparisons.
The CRAs immediately record inquiries - at least HP, but I would assume SP too. They should really leverage push notifications on their own services since they have a unique ability to do so.
Yeah I've heard 15 days as well, though I see squirrelly things all the time: I have two accounts which report end of month, why did one make it in 3 days and the other take 8 presumably if they all went through the same batch process? Or was there something delayed at the lender end? Hard to know.
In theory the number of balance updates should dwarve the number of inquiries by likely many orders of magnitude, so they can do a more real-time process there without crushing the system. It's also likely an easier INSERT query which just throws a new inquiry into the table, rather than the more compute intensive UPDATE which is going to have additional criteria beyond SSN or address match to handle.