Directly behind the bale of stamps, is a crate containing a statue of William Pitt, Grenville's archenemy in the Stamp Act controversy.
You have the right to dispute mistakes on your reports under a federal law, the Fair Credit Reporting Act. If you ask for an investigation, the CRA or creditor who receives your dispute must investigate and respond within 30 days in most cases.
Conventional wisdom is that the passage of time is the primary way to heal your credit, and that is true. Most negative credit reporting will remain on your credit reports for up to 7.5 years from the date you first missed paying, say, a credit card that later landed with a debt collection company.