Editorial Reviews:
Book Description
A bad credit rating can keep you from buying a house, renting a car, or even sending flowers. yet most people don't know how to find out the status of their credit or how to fix it if it's bad.This book can save you time and money. Written by a journalist and a credit consultant to the mortgage industry, The Guerrilla Guide to Credit Repair tells you how the major credit bureaus compile your credit history, and teaches you how to deal with them if there is a problem. Easy to use, the book shows you:-How to contact three major credit bureaus and get a copy of your credit report.-How to decipher and understand the report's complex codes, numbers, and implications.-Step-by-step, how to correct errors and clean up your credit history.-How to use your legal rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Billing Act, and the Truth in Lending Act to protect yourself against credit abuse.Sample credit reports, form letters, and proven techniques for credit repair makes this an invaluable guide for all consumers.
Customer Reviews:
Review #1: Sound Advice that Works but....
2005-04-24 
Updating would be a good thing with recent changes in the FCRA. I read the reviews by others before I read the material myself. Seeing that other reviewers had looked into Bill Bauer who claimed to be an expert on the topic and gave a very negative review and I saw the book was sound raised my curiousity level and I Googled him as well. I think a new book about him would make fascinating reading. Please do not take the negative reviews seriously. They have an agenda.
Review #2: what it boils down to
2005-02-22 
I am writing in response to someone who gave this book a bad rec. do to the book not telling him what the cb's use to calc your individual score. The fact is nobody knows. All 3 use their own system and they aint tellin. Besides many creditor will use other data on cb report, not just the score. best you can do is make sure cb info is correct and make all pmts by due dates.
Review #3: Junk
2005-02-15 
Bierman has written several books on the subject of credit repair. Why? Why not write ONE book, and update it with new editions? Because he's basically nothing more than a credit repair agency operating as an author. None of his books is overly helpful, none of his books gives you any more info than a decent use of Google won't uncover. I want to know what REALLY effects my score. I want to know how removing a false collections report will effect my score. Will I find that kind of info in a Bierman book? Never.
Review #4: Beware of bogus reviewers
2004-02-23 
I have not yet read this book and am giving it the average number of stars to keep from tilting the scales one way or another. I would just like to say that not all reviews are equal. Case in point, I did a Google search of "Bill Bauer" and "credit," and came up with some very strange results.Always read reviews with a grain of salt, espcially those from self-proclaimed "world's best experts bar none" on any particulare subject.
Review #5: Easy to Follow Advice on Credit Repair
2003-08-24
I bought this book on advice from How-to-get-credit.com I'd have to agree that the information is a little bit old, but it was good information none the less. |
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