Blog: Fixing my credit file - the saga continues

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In my first entry to this blog I asked for help to understand my credit rating and confessed I was having difficulty obtaining any credit. My second entry attempted to explain possible reasons why I might be having problems.

Ths is now my third entry and I have discovered the reasons I thought I was having difficulty obtaining credit might not have been the real reasons I was having problems at all. I went through a number of emotions when I viewed my credit files for the first time last week, thanks to help from www.checkmyfile.com, but none of them were ones I had expected to go through. I experienced anger…..in fact to say that particular emotion bordered quite close to fury would not be an understatement. Then there was surprise and disbelief.…there was literally a moment where I could not quite believ...

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