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Credit bureaus came in picture to provide lending to customers and businesses and also provide a tool to creditors by which they can analyze trustworthiness of loan requester. Today in America there are three major credit bureau or credit reference agencies, namely 'Trans Union ', 'Equifax', and 'Experian'.

These credit bureau agencies collect data about individual consumers from various sources. Later they will consolidate collected data and provide as consumer credit information to banks, businesses, employment agencies, credit card companies and also to individual on demand basis.

What these agencies collect is individual's current debit/credit ratio, bill paying habits, past history related to job, residence, credit card details and any derogatory remarks added against them in any complaint forum.

All these information is vital to creditors and this help them to decide either filter out the bad loan requestors or decide on what level of trustworthiness is each individual. Based on their credit level each individual is awarded loan amount.

These credit bureaus rate each individual consumer based on their past records. The rating they give as 'Excellent', 'Good', 'Fair', 'Bad' and 'No Credit'. Against each rating credit score is calculated. The 'excellent' credit rating will have credit score from 750 and above whereas 'Bad' credit rating is classified as credit score below 600.

Credit Bureaus create business relationship with data furnishers. Data furnishers are banks, credit card companies, utilities, collection agencies, public records etc. All these information is consolidated against each individual consumer and is helpful for credit bureaus to rate them for credit worthiness.

It is advisable to check your credit file once a while. This will help individual to check wrong entries in file and also gives you chance take corrective measures if anything negative comes up in your file.

If you are wondering what constitutes the make up of credit score. Look at details given below. These are the main factors, which weigh in for your credit score.

Credit Score Factors

• Payment History: How you have been paying your bills in past.
• Amount Owed: How much you already owe to lenders.
• Length of credit history: The more you have positive credit history the more it adds weight to your credit score.
• Type of credit: If you own home or big credit such as car or personal loan which you are paying timely back to lender also shows your credit worthiness. Taking loan for home, car and college may be necessity but other then these three piling loan is bad way fo building credit history
• New Credit: This shows lender's confidence in you and are offering credit to you against your good credit history. But opening too many credit cards also goes against you especially if they are being used for piling debt. Keeping unused credit is good for credit score.
• Blemish Record: Any negative remarks on your credit report will bring your credit score down.

There are three credit reporting companies which keep tab on consumers and document all their history in credit reports. Credit Bureaus

Credit Reporting Agencies

  
How to contact credit reporting companies

• Trans Union - Consumer Disclosure Center
  Address: P.O. Box 1000
  City: Chester, PA 19022
  web Address: http://www.transunion.com
  Contact Number: (800) 916-8800 or (800) 888-4213

• Equifax
  Address: P.O. Box 105873
  City: Atlanta, GA 30348
  web address: http://www.equifax.com
  Phone Number: (800) 685-1111

• Experian (formerly it was called TRW)
  Address: P.O. Box 2104
  City: Allen, TX 75013-2104
  Web Address: http://www.experian.com
  Phone Number: (888) 397-3742