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Credit Rebuilding We cannot stress enough the importance of staying out of trouble as a credit-rebuilding tool. Even doing nothing can help a bad credit report, but repeating poor credit habits can make things much worse. Creditors can be somewhat understanding of a bad credit incident, if corrected. This can be particularly true when the bad credit originated with problems outside of the debtors control such as emergency medical bills. Repeated bad credit behavior indicates a problem with deeper roots and looks to be a stronger indication that future credit worthiness looks shaky. If you want your credit to improve, be perfect with your new credit, as well as old credit where accounts remain open. To accelerate the rebuilding process try to have at least three active credit lines open, and be perfect with them. Car loans or mortgages count if you still make payments, as well as old credit cards if they can still be used. If you need to obtain new credit store cards or gas cards can be easier to obtain than major credit cards. If even those fall beyond reach any one can be accepted for secured credit cards, make sure when taking a new credit for rebuilding purposes that the creditor reports to the major credit agencies. Not all creditors submit information to the credit bureaus, and almost no debit card or check card issuers do, even ones with a MasterCard or Visa logo. Use the credit you have obtained and make your payments on time (did we mention that we can't stress this enough). On time means never being 30 days late. At fifteen days you may pay a late fee, but late items must hit 30 days overdue before they will be reported. Using credit does not mean abusing it, you need not run the card up to its limit. On the other hand, leaving the card in your wallet will not help rebuild your credit as much as positive usage.