On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:47 PM, dpc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:weasel@meer.net">weasel@meer.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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a small thing...<br>
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i think that banks/lenders would have an issue if the claim was<br>
cancelled entirely on payment (not even as a note or something). i can<br>
see this as: i'm budgetting based on payment in a certain window, having<br>
'lateness' and 'goodness' being equal in a report reduces its utility.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>On flip-side this could be used as an incentive to get people to settle the debt ASAP. It would save them the hassle of having to send an account into collections. I could imagine for instance that someone forgets to pay their electric bill, and 30 days later they get a notification that their credit profile is about to be dinged and that they have 10 days to settle it with the electric company. If the company gets its money within that 10 days, that saves them a lot of time and money by not having to get people to hound them to pay up.<br>
<br>But you have a point, maybe there could be a more fine grained approach to this. It could include late payments, late payments that were sent to collections, debts that went to court, etc.<br><br>- Brian<br><br></div>
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