As part of Lexington's service you will use Dispute Valet to indicate to us which items you wish to dispute, and how you want Lexington to dispute them. Once they have received your credit reports Lexington will draft letters to dispute negative items on your behalf. These letters are designed to communicate your dispute in such a way that the credit bureaus will accept the dispute and conduct an investigation.
While this may sound easy, any person who has attempted to dispute their own
bad credit will tell you otherwise. According to federal law, the credit bureaus can ignore your dispute under a variety of conditions. In their experience, a large part of dispute letters sent directly from consumers are rejected under one pretext or another.
At the conclusion of the credit bureau's investigation, a new copy of the credit report is sent to your home along with any deletions or improvements. You then copy and send Lexington the new credit report and the cycle repeats itself at timed intervals.
A disputed credit listing must be accurate and verifiable for it to remain on the credit report. If the credit listings is only somewhat inaccurate, the credit bureau may simply change the item to reflect the accurate status. Very often, though, disputed credit items cannot be verified: the creditor either no longer possesses the information or does not wish to go to the trouble of verifying it. Also, the reinvestigation must be completed within 30 days or the listing must be removed. For these reasons, properly disputed credit listings are removed with remarkable frequency.
Each time an investigation is commenced, the odds of receiving a particular deletion increases.
