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Old, unpaid parking tickets can haunt you and your credit report

You may have forgotten about your old parking tickets, but have they forgotten about you? Some people think that if they don’t pay their parking tickets and just ignore them, they will some how go away.

Old, unpaid parking tickets effect your credit, but you can get them removed.From our experience, parking tickets don’t always go away. Old, unpaid parking tickets can show up on your credit report (your credit history) and cause you problems when you apply for credit.

How to get parking tickets removed from your credit bureau report

Many often don’t realize that their old parking tickets are reporting on their credit bureau report until they apply for credit. Someone will apply for a loan, their lender will obtain their credit report and then ask them why they have a collection for $290 owed to the City of XYZ under the public records section of their credit bureau. Although this can be a little embarrassing, it can often be fixed. Very often, someone is able to pay their overdue parking tickets and then ask that the public record be removed from their credit report (usually you would pay the city that you owe the fines to and at the same time ask them to remove the record from your credit report). There is an added bonus for doing this. When collections like this are removed from your credit history, your credit score (rating) will usually improve.

Help your credit score: don't take too long to pay your parking tickets

You can of course prevent this hassle by paying your parking tickets before they get too old. It may not be worth a city’s effort to send old parking tickets to a collection agency, but they can definitely get your attention by putting a record of this debt on your credit bureau report. If you have a pile of unpaid parking tickets, take care of them before your banker sees them. It will make you look better, and it will improve your credit score.

Related:Yahoo Finance recently put together a video which shows when you may be able to avoid paying parking tickets

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The information about parking tickets affecting Your credit score is totally misleading Private property tickets dont affect your credit score Cbc market place just did a story on that Here is a link to youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB24lj71VPA If does not work type in youtube Cbc marketplace - Worst place to park I had few b******t parking tickets from parklink and they took Me to collections. Sent me threttening letters They would ruin my credit score F*** all happen to my creditscore. Credit scores are based on your - mortgage payment hostory - credit cards - lines of credit - and bills ie cell phone. Utilities etc Not ur d*** parking tickets from private properties Those phoney private property tickets are fake because u cant Have a court date or go in front of judge Real parking tickets have a court date and if u dont pay U cant renew ur plate sticker or drivers license Befoee u pay up at registries. Your are missleading ppl with phoney information

Thanks for sharing your experience. The reason we created is article is because so many people have old, unpaid parking tickets on their credit reports and this is hurting their credit scores. What seems to happen is that after a period of time, some cities report unpaid parking tickets as an unpaid debt on people’s credit report reports. This appears in the same section of your credit report that an unpaid cellphone or utility bill would appear. This section shows unpaid collections that have been specifically reported to the credit reporting agency but are not revolving forms of credit or loans (those have their own section on your credit report). Thanks for sharing the CBC Marketplace story on parking tickets. Our article above, though, addresses the issue that they don’t cover in their story – one that a lot people find themselves facing: how do you get rid of a fine on your credit report when a city decides to report your unpaid parking tickets as a collection item?