Stories Related to ‘pay For Delete’ Might Help Your Credit — If You’re Lucky

Sean Pyles, NerdWallet.com
Wed, 09/20/2017 - 11:20am

“Pay for delete” is a strategy that can remove collections accounts from your credit reports — but only if you can get the collector to agree. You call or send a letter to the debt collector and propose a deal: You’ll pay off the account, and the collector will wipe the account from your credit reports.... Sean Pyles is a writer at NerdWallet.

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