So confused - I need help

  Hello, everybody!  It seems that the more I read, the more confusing it gets. I am trying to help my husband fix his credit score. We have yet to pull his yearly credit raports, so at the moment we are only looking at what CK offers. Namely: 1. Century Link collection by AFNI, Inc (73 dollars), opened in October 2014,  last reported in November 2014. 2. Charter Collection by SRI (293 dollars), opened on January 22, 2015, last reported in April 2015. I don't know if it matters, but we got no papers about these charges. We only found out about them when we checked his CK yesterday. His FAKO scores are mid to late 500s. I would like to take care of these two items, since the sum is small, they are new and the damage is substantial. How do I do it, though? a) Call CL/Charter, pay the debt with them directly, then send a debt validation to the collection agencies, and hope they won't be able to validate it and take it off the raports? b) Send a debt validation to the collection agencies, then follow up wth a PFD ( offering a smaller amount or the full one? sort of confused here), and a GW if they don't agree to the PDF? c) Some other way of tackling them that I can't think of now? We will pull his official raports next weekend, my guess is that he might have more, since his score is so low. Until we get to those, I could use some help with these. Thank you

Emilia wrote:
  Hello, everybody!  It seems that the more I read, the more confusing it gets. I am trying to help my husband fix his credit score. We have yet to pull his yearly credit raports, so at the moment we are only looking at what CK offers. Namely: 1. Century Link collection by AFNI, Inc (73 dollars), opened in October 2014,  last reported in November 2014. 2. Charter Collection by SRI (293 dollars), opened on January 22, 2015, last reported in April 2015. I don't know if it matters, but we got no papers about these charges. We only found out about them when we checked his CK yesterday. His FAKO scores are mid to late 500s. I would like to take care of these two items, since the sum is small, they are new and the damage is substantial. How do I do it, though? a) Call CL/Charter, pay the debt with them directly, then send a debt validation to the collection agencies, and hope they won't be able to validate it and take it off the raports? b) Send a debt validation to the collection agencies, then follow up wth a PFD ( offering a smaller amount or the full one? sort of confused here), and a GW if they don't agree to the PDF? c) Some other way of tackling them that I can't think of now? We will pull his official raports next weekend, my guess is that he might have more, since his score is so low. Until we get to those, I could use some help with these. Thank youFirst off - do not rely on CK for scores. Their scores are often way off compared to actual FICO scores. I'd suggest doing the 7 day trial from Credit total, and getting his actual FICO 8 scores for only one dollar. Cancel within the 7 days if your not ready to pay for monthly scores/reports yet.The collections are very new which really hurts score more. As to addressing the collection, some CA's will remove the collections if you tell them you never received any bills from them. Offer to PIF for deletion if that does not work. Does Hubby have any current credit cards?

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