FCRA Section 611 requires credit bureaus to conduct a "reasonable reinvestigation" of any disputed item within 30 days. If the item cannot be verified as accurate, complete, and properly reported, it must be deleted. This is the single most important section of consumer credit law. Here at Credisure Fix, every dispute we file invokes Section 611 with the language that triggers real reinvestigation.
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