Are companies' claims offering credit repair legitimate?

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Markita Aldridge-Woods: Most of the times, the company that advertise these things or deciding as companies, some of their claims may be legitimate, but you really want be aware that you are not getting involved with something that makes you pay for things upfront to repair credit that you can actually do yourself and also want to be sure that they are not really steering you toward some type of bankruptcy or a different thing that really, adversely affect your credit. So some of the claims are legit, are recommended you talk to the better business bureau, because the more advertising that they do typically the shadier job that they do.

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