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"""Credit Repair is a guide to improving bad credit, written by professional bankruptcy and foreclosure attorneys. Crafted to be in-depth yet thoroughly accessible to readers of all backgrounds, Credit Repair covers how to prioritize debts and create a budget, negotiate with creditors, correct credit report errors and remove old information, avoid identity theft and credit repair scams, and much more. Access to the nolo.com website, where one can download the forms contained in Credit Repair and obtain timely legal updates, complements this ""must-have"" guide for anyone struggling with credit woes. Highly recommended, both for personal use and for public library collections."" The Midwest Book Review ""A helpful guide for people who have sunk into debt, offers ideas for setting a budget and repairing credit history."" Washington Times ""A high quality, do-it-yourself credit repair approach..."" Reuters ""How do you distinguish genuinely helpful credit-repair professionals from scam artists? Ask your library for books such as Credit Repair."" Chicago Sun-Times ""Attorneys Loftsgordon and O'Neill explain how people who have fallen behind on bills, been sued, faced a repossession or foreclosure, or even declared bankruptcy can take simple and effective steps to repair their credit. Their topics include credit reports and credit scores: the nuts and bolts, the first step to a better credit score--cleaning up your credit report, reducing current expenses and debt, getting help to negotiate and manage debts, choosing and using credit cards, and avoiding and dealing with identity theft."" Eithne O'Leyne, Editor Ringgold, Inc. ProtoView From the Author: It can be easy to fall into debt, but challenging to pay that money back. Unfortunately, the consequences of mounting debt, like delinquent bill payments, defaults, lawsuits, repossessions, foreclosures, and bankruptcy, eventually find their way into your credit report and damage your credit score. If you find yourself in a bad credit situation, this book will help you take simple and practical steps to raise your credit score and repair your credit."

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Amy Loftsgordon is a legal editor and writer at Nolo, focusing on foreclosure, debt management, consumer protection, and personal finance. She edits a number of Nolo books and is the coauthor of The Foreclosure Survival Guide, Solve Your Money Troubles, and Credit Repair. Before joining Nolo, Amy worked in foreclosure and debt collections for many years. She has drafted foreclosure-related training and loan servicing procedures, written manuals for collection operations, and audited completed foreclosures for compliance with applicable laws. Amy was also instrumental in preparing expert reports used in lawsuits against banks and servicers accused of mishandling collection, preforeclosure, loss mitigation, foreclosure, and REO processes. She received a B.A. from the University of Southern California and a law degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. She is licensed to practice law in Colorado. Cara O'Neill is a legal editor and writer at Nolo specializing in bankruptcy and small claims litigation. Cara authors several Nolo book titles, including How to File for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, The New Bankruptcy, and Everybody's Guide to Small Claims Court. She also coauthors Legal Research: How to Find and Understand the Law, The Foreclosure Survival Guide, Solve Your Money Troubles, and Credit Repair, and edits several more. Before joining Nolo, Cara practiced law for over 20 years in civil and criminal litigation, bankruptcy, and administrative law. During that time, she served as an administrative law judge, took dozens of criminal and civil cases to jury verdict, appeared before the California Court of Appeals, and taught undergraduate and graduate law courses. She earned her law degree in 1994 from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, where she served as a law journal editor and graduated as a member of the Order of the Barristers--an honor society recognizing excellence in courtroom advocacy.

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