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BestCredit: How to Win the Credit Game (2nd ed.)

Author: Dana A. Neal

Learn from a Collection Agency Insider


Learn from a Collection Agency Insider

This former debt collector knows firsthand the consequences of bad credit—how a financial setback can you leave you unable to buy a house or car, rent an apartment, get insurance, or even land a job. He provides a straightforward, no-nonsense plan showing consumers how to:

  • Safely and legally remove adverse credit report history, including bankruptcies, liens, judgments, collection accounts, late payment, repossessions, student loan history, and tenant entries; get back into the checking system if you’ve been banned; establish years of good credit where none existed; and reestablish credit even after bankruptcy
  • Develop a comprehensive, individualized strategy for credit restoration; maximize your credit score; and learn the most powerful techniques of getting loan approval
  • Prevent and recover from identity theft, understand and compare the many ID theft monitoring solutions available, and protect and restore your overall privacy
  • Stop debt collectors, and learn to position yourself to negotiate up to seventy-five percent off of your unsecured debts
  • Use the law to your advantage: make the credit bureaus work for you by using the right letters, employ effective written settlement agreements, and use the courts in ways you never thought possible

Avoid debt consolidators, credit repair firms, and bankruptcy; fuse credit restoration with debt reduction—Debt Fusion™—using the most incredible force available—you.



Changes from the First Edition


Changes from the First Edition

Nearly a complete rewrite, addressed were issues brought up by readers of the first edition. Some of the main differences:

  • FICO scoring is detailed and analyzed in depth
  • What to do when drowning in debt; Debt Fusion™
  • Legal recourse for creditors, and liability for debtors
  • Exact statutes of limitations for collections and reporting
  • Identity theft protection, monitoring and recovery
  • Credit industry tactics and federal requirements for bureaus and furnishers
  • Expanded credit bureau dispute letter crafting
  • Declaratory judgments explained with examples
  • Detailed use of restrictively endorsed checks
  • Written settlement agreements (language from the National Consumer Law Center)
  • Student loan entries
  • Joint accounts and divorce
  • Multiple reporting scenarios
  • 300 footnotes in support of text
  • 437 pages (without text of Fair Credit Reporting & Fair Debt Collection Acts)

About the Author


About the Author

In the early 1980s, Dana Neal learned all the ins and outs of the credit game while collecting defaulted student loan debts for a collection agency on behalf of the Greater Lakes Higher Education Corporation. He quickly became disenchanted with the way his peers conducted themselves and with the state of credit reporting in the United States in general.

After graduating from The Ohio State University in 1991 with a degree in aviation, Neal went on to active duty, piloting several types of aircraft for the US Army, including the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and various multi-engine airplanes.

He was injured in the line of duty and medically retired from the service, and his subsequent financial hardships led him to become a consumer advocate, dedicated to championing the cause of individual consumers. His mission: to inform others of their rights and to demonstrate that they wield significant power over their credit reports. In keeping with this goal, he founded BestCredit™ in 1999. He now spends his time teaching others what his experience as both a collector and a debtor has taught him about debt collection and credit reporting.

If you wish to know more about Dana Neal, read his autobiography here.
 
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