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What You Can Learn From Your Tri Merge Credit Report

It is important to be aware that lenders as well as some employers use credit reports from the three major fico bureaus to establish your credit worthiness before approving your request for a loan, home loan, job and personal goods such as cell phones and credit cards.

 

Some lenders that take a look at your credit scores just retrieve a credit report on you from just one of these bureaus, but you do not know which one they even use unless you ask them.

 

When you or a lender retrieves your credit history from all three credit bureaus then it is called a tri-merge report. That is because your past credit info will be retrieved from each fico score bureau and merged into one report for a creditor to evaluate.

 

In addition they’ll be provided with your fico score from each of the fico score bureaus. 

 

Each credit reporting agency(Experian, Equifax, TransUnion) has their own scoring algorithm. What’s more, lenders might not file your credit history to every one of the credit reporting agencies.

 

 

Consequently, you will find that you have a dissimilar score reported from Experian, Equifax and TransUnion. This is because they’re working with unique info that’s known to them about your credit history as well as applying a different scoring algorithm.

 

 

If you apply for a home loan in order to purchase a property then your tri-merge credit report is retrieved by the home loan lender to decide approval for any home loan. Lenders generally use the middle of the three scores to initially see if you can begin to qualify for the loan and then after that they evaluate the rest of your credit items to check your credit rating worthiness.

 

 

If you apply for a cellular phone or go to obtain an automobile you may find that the company only retrieves your report from a single fico bureau and also just looks at one of your fico scores to figure out if they will be able to approve your application.

 

 

Given that each creditor does not report to all 3 of the credit reporting companies you may find that you have a good or derogatory item on one report, but not another, which will impact your fico scores in a excellent or bad manner.

 

Consequently, if you want to really know what is being totally reported about you to your credit history then you should retrieve a tri merge report and check all of the details in addition to all 3 of your scores. This will give you the best view of your total credit history.

 

Visit these links to learn more about a tri merge credit report and how to use that information to help protect your credit rating scores. In addition you will be able to learn about whats a good credit score.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February 7th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Tri Merge Credit Report | Comments are closed

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