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My credit score fell 37 points in 2 months, and I did nothing wrong. Help?

7 Jun, 2010 in Dispute Credit Report by C.R.I.

The only thing that I can remember doing “wrong” was, I charged many of my cards almost to their limit, like about $100 away from the limit on a few $3000 cards, and about $13500 on a $15,000 card, however I was planning on paying most of that off this month.

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Does paying off collecion debt help increase my credit score?

8 May, 2010 in Build Your Credit by C.R.I.

I have debt in the amount of $7000 that has been sent to collection agencies about three years ago. Two were credit cards, one a cell phone bill. I desperately need to improve my credit score. Will it help if I start paying this debt to the collection agaencies? I read somewhere that it does [...]

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