Some companies are not working on my debt

Sarahbrunelle, why is the debt in "illegal status"? Firstly, you have to find out why is it shown in such a way? Is it appearing in your credit report? If it is, it is damaging your credit completely.

Pull your credit report from the three bureaus and compare it. If it is not shown in the other two reports, dispute with the bureau reporting it.

Well when consolidating...the credit company wouldn't work with debtwave b/c my account was in illegal status. I haven't paid them in about 3-4 months but before that paid them regularly. I can't believe they wouldn't work with them.

I am still unclear with "illegal status". Why is a debt shown like that??? sarahbrunelle, please clarify

Well that was my question to the forum lol...I have to call and find out. I just thought I would write to see if anyone had the same problem. The funny thing is...they are my lowest credit bill...I think I owe them like 600 dollars.

Hi sarahbrunelle

Welcome to the forums. I have not heard of any debt appearing with this status in the credit reports. Please dispute with your creditors as well as the credit bureaus by highlighting the particular entry.

They will conduct an investigation with your information providers and if your dispute is found to be legitimate, your credit report will be updated and you will be sent a free copy of it.

Regards
Roxette

Thanks Roxette...I will definately look into it and share with the forum what happens so if someone else is in a similar situation they will know.
~have a good one~
-Sarah

Illegal status was that it was sold to a law firm that buys debts and they took me to court to get the payments.