11 QUICK Ways To Raise Your Credit Score by Curtis Arnold

11 QUICK Ways To Raise Your Credit Score by Curtis Arnold: While crash diets don’t usually work and can be unhealthy, it is possible to change your credit score fairly quickly. But just as with weight loss, “quickly” is a relative term. Seeing any improvement could take 30 to 60 days, according to Liz Weston, personal finance columnist and author of Your Credit Score, Your Money & What’s At Stake.
But nothing will change at all if you just sit there on the couch, eating Cheetos and charging items on the Home Shopping Network. So get moving!
The first thing to do is get a copy of your credit report from AnnualCreditReport.com.The three major credit reporting bureaus must give you one free copy per year, so plan to order one every four months.
Then use one or more of the following tips to boost that three-digit number that has increasing power over our everyday lives.
1. Dispute errors. Mistakes happen. You can dispute errors online through Equifax,Experian and TransUnion.
2. Negotiate. You can’t deny that you stopped paying a credit card bill…