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We serve the Tampa Bay area  as well as
the entire state of Florida.

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Chapter 7

Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Here is a summary of your major rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). For more information, including information about additional rights, go to the Federal Trade Commission's website.

You must be told if info in your file has been used against you.  Anyone who uses a credit report or another type of consumer report to deny your application for credit, insurance, or employment or to take another adverse action against you must tell you and must give you the name, address, and phone number of the agency that provided the information.

You have the right to know what is in your file.  You may request and obtain all the information about you in the files of a consumer reporting agency.  You will be required to provide proper identification, which may include your Social Security number. In many cases, the disclosure will be free.

You are entitled to a free file disclosure if: (a)  a person has taken adverse action against you because of information in your credit report; (b) you are the victim of identify theft and place a fraud alert in your file; (c) your file contains inaccurate information as a result of fraud; (d)  you are on public assistance; and (e) you are unemployed but expect to apply for employment within 60 days. 

In addition, all consumers are entitled to one free disclosure every 12 months upon request from each nationwide credit bureau and from nationwide specialty consumer reporting agencies.

You have the right to ask for a credit score.  Credit scores are numerical summaries of your credit-worthiness based on information from credit bureaus. You may request a credit score from consumer reporting agencies that create scores or distribute scores used in residential real property loans, but you will have to pay for it. In some mortgage transactions, you will receive credit score information for free from the mortgage lender.

You have the right to dispute incomplete or inaccurate information.  If you identify information in your file that is incomplete or inaccurate, and report it to the consumer reporting agency, the agency must investigate unless your dispute is frivolous.

Consumer reporting agencies must correct or delete inaccurate, incomplete, or unverifiable information.  Inaccurate, incomplete or unverifiable information must be removed or corrected, usually within 30 days. However, a consumer reporting agency may continue to report information it has verified as accurate.  Consumer reporting agencies may not report outdated negative information.

In most cases, a consumer reporting agency may not report negative information that is more than seven years old, or bankruptcies that are more than 10 years old.

Identity theft victims and active duty military personnel have additional rights.

Florida Southern District

Our Location & Hours

2808 Beach Blvd. So. #9

Gulfport, FL  33707

Monday - Friday

9:00 - 5:00

By appointment only.