If I have poor credit from too many late payments how do I start repairing my credit?

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Markita Aldridge
Mortgage Consultant, WestStar Mortgage
www.thelendingadvisors.com  
703-497-3936

Markita has been called :The Queen of Mortgage Financing especially after a BK". Since 2002, Markita has been a top-producing loan officer with WestStar Mortgage located in Lake Ridge, VA. She offers her clients expert service in mortgage financing regardless of credit history. Markita's former career as a professional basketball player with the "Washington Mystics of the WNBA" has been her foundation for creating a TEAM atmosphere when dealing with her mortgage clients. She truly believes Together Everyone Accomplishes More! You can visit her website at <a>www.TheLendingAdvisors.com</a> for more information and several FREE mortgage reports that reveal lending secrets other mortgage bankers don't want you to know!

If I have poor credit from too many late payments how do I start repairing my credit?

 

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Host: If I have poor credit from too many late Payments, how do I start repairing my credit?

Markita Aldridge: Well, the first thing you are going to want to do is to contact the creditors. Many times when that happens and we have paid late, we tend to stop communicating with them. The best thing you can do is try to set a some type of payment plan, also to have a budget to start with the lowest account that you have and start making extra payments there versus trying to tackle the bigger account first. So, the one thing you have to do though, you have to contact the creditors versus to shying away from speaking with them about the accounts.

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