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If you have a negative credit score, chances are you’ve already felt the effects of it on your life. A credit rating is often what determines someone’s fiscal viability and financial reliability in the eyes of lenders, landlords and even employers. If you’ve got bad credit, fixing it should be one of your top priorities.

Having an adverse credit rating limits what you can do. It can often lead to your application for a mortgage or home loan being rejected, and can sometimes make it impossible to find employment or housing. Obviously this is a situation that you want to avoid at all costs, but what is someone looking to repair credit supposed to do?

The good news is: there are options. What many people aren’t aware of is, millions of Canadians have errors on their credit reports, errors that are often seminal reasons for the deterioration of their rating in the first place. These items can be as significant as an improperly reported bankruptcy, or might simply be obsolete student loans. No matter what the significance of the errors, however, fixing them can go a long way toward rehabilitating your credit.

Your first step, then, in fixing your credit, is to request your credit report from one of the three primary credit burueas. You are entitled to ask for your report once a year, so don’t worry about requesting it.

After you’ve got your report, you’re ready to look through it for errors or discrepencies that might be causing the damage of your rating. For this phase you might consider hiring a credit repair agency to help you dispute any errors that you find. The reason being, interfacing with claimants and creditors is not always straightforward, and unless these transactions are handled carefully, the result could be the worsening of your credit score. A credit repair agency ensures that no such worsening will take place, and further, guarantees that if there are any errors on your report they will be successfully removed, and your credit history will be rehabilitated and restored.