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Understanding Your Credit Report

Read your credit report like a pro — every section, line by line, across all three bureaus.

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1

The Credit Report Roadmap

Learn the route every credit report follows, from the header and personal information to accounts, negative items, inquiries, and statements.

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2

Personal Information: The Clues Most People Skip

Learn what the personal information section shows, how identity matching works, how to spot a mixed file, and why order matters when fixing it.

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3

Open Accounts: What They Really Say About You

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Is Understanding Your Credit Report free on 850 University?

Yes — 12 of 12 lessons in this course are free with an 850ai account. Watch on YouTube anytime; create a free account to take quizzes and track progress.

How many lessons are in Understanding Your Credit Report?

This course includes 12 short video lessons, each followed by a quiz when you learn inside the 850ai app.

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850 University teaches the concepts; 850ai can analyze your credit report and generate dispute letters when you are ready. Start free at my850.ai/landing.

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Learn to read each open account field by field: type, date opened, limit or original amount, balance, payment status, and responsibility.

3 min6-question quizStudy guideWatch on YouTube
4

Closed Accounts: Why Closed Does Not Mean Gone

Learn why closed accounts stay on your report, how long they can last, who closed them, and how closing a card can change your numbers.

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5

The Payment History Grid

Learn to read the payment history grid box by box, what each code means, how lates climb, and how to check a late you do not recognize.

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6

Balances, Limits, and Utilization

Learn how balances, credit limits, high balances, and the reported date work together, and how to check utilization card by card and overall.

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7

Collection Accounts on Your Credit Report

Learn to read every field of a collection entry: the two names, the two dates, the balances, the status, and how to spot a debt counted twice.

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8

Charge-Offs: How They Read on Your Report

Learn how to read a charged-off account on your report: the status, the charge-off amount versus the current balance, the dates, and the remarks.

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9

Inquiries: Who Looked at Your Credit and Why

Learn the difference between hard and soft inquiries, how rate shopping is often counted, and how to check your inquiry list for names you don't recognize.

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10

Remarks, Dispute Comments, and Special Codes

Learn what remarks and dispute comments on your report mean, why they matter to lenders, and how to catch a dispute comment that stayed after it should have cleared.

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11

Public Records and Specialty Reports

Learn what the public records section shows today, what specialty consumer reports are, and how to get and dispute those other files.

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12

Comparing All 3 Bureaus

Learn why your three credit reports and scores can differ, how to compare them line by line, and which bureau to dispute a mismatch with.

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