In Understanding Your Credit Reports, you stated negative entries should only remain on your credit report for 7 years from “date of last activity” (or 10 years, in the case of a bankruptcy). What exactly is the meaning of “date of last activity”? Is there a legal definition for this? If an account goes from onecollection agency to another to another does all that time count as “date of last activity”?
Okay, I went to Experian to see what their definition was and this is what I found: “The original delinquency date is the date you first missed a payment - the original date the account became late - and after which you never again brought the account current.” This would be the “date of last activity”.
http://www.experian.com/ask_max/max120402a.html
Also, I found the following at another site, though I’m not sure of its validity: “Re-aging of debts is strictly illegal and is more than sufficient grounds for filing of a lawsuit. The DLA is defined by Congress as being a date 30 days after the last payment missed was due.”
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