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Pay off old collections?

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Pay off old collections?

I am trying to clean up my wife's credit. She has collections from 2009 for $60. We have not been contacted by collectors at all. I am trying to determine if it would be best to pay this off or just let it fall off eventually.

 

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Re: Pay off old collections?

I would say to just let it fall off. There isn't much room for negotiating when you only owe $60 for a PFD. Most lenders look at debts less than $100 as nuissance debt and don't really pay attention to it. I think that the same goes for FICO scoring. I have one and only CO for $100 that is bring my score down by a lot.  I already paid it, but they never updated it and don't really want them too. Just wonder if that debt was less than $100, but they made it to be $100 so it could ruin someone's credit. Evil evil..

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