When negative info in your report is correct, only the passage of time can assure its removal. A client reporting company can report finest negative info for seven years and insolvency information for 10 years. Info about a unpaid judgment against you can be reported for seven years or until the statute of restrictions runs out, whichever is longer. There is no cutoff point on reporting info about criminal convictions; info reported in response to your claim for a job that pays more than $75,000 a year; and info reported because you have applied for more than $150,000 worth of credit or life insurance. There's a standard method for calculating the seven-year reporting period. Sometimes, the period runs from the date that the event took place. [...]