Realty411 Magazine Featuring Eric Counts, Credit Nerds | Page 70

The Nerdy Side of
Credit Restoration
Sitting down with
Eric Counts of
CreditNerds.com can
be quite an interesting
experience. I recently
had the chance to interview him and
what was supposed to be a few quick
questions stretched well into more
than an hour of great conversation.
Now, obviously, credit is an
extremely powerful financial tool
when dealing with one’s finances
and investments, but the level of
knowledge Mr. Counts held was
beyond anything you’ll find in a
Google search or at a basic credit
seminar. It quickly became evident
why he is an accepted expert witness
in legal cases involving credit
reporting and a sought­after speaker
for financial events across the
country.
However, the interesting part of
the story wasn’t as much about what
this young CEO has become since
founding his company in 2008, but
instead the path his life followed in
creating what he believes to be the
only full service company that
provides credit repair 100% free of
charge. And yes... I had to ask him to
By Bruce Kellogg and Linda Pliagas
repeat that as well. He assured me
that CreditNerds.com charges zero
fees for their full service credit repair
program. The only requirement is to
keep an active monitoring account so
they can access the credit report as
needed. Needless to say, he has
caused quite a disruption in an
industry known for bad actors and
illegal upfront charges.
So Let’s Meet Eric
Eric Counts was raised
most of his young life in a
mobile home in rural
Arkansas. His humble and
country family life gave him
a strong foundation, one
overflowing with the most
richly possession possible:
love.
"I was blessed to have four
sets of incredible parents,"
Counts admits and adds: "I
really had four great people
raise me."
Counts credits much of his
success to the guidance of his
four great parents. He stresses
that in a world where many
people don’t even have one good
parent, he considers himself
extremely blessed to have been raised
by four amazing people ­­ individuals
who put their differences aside and
focused on providing their children
the best life possible..
He reminisces that as a child
growing up his parents and stepparents
were extremely loving and
super­supportive of him, which fueled
his confidence. "I believed that I
could early on. I always knew I would
succeed."
As a child, he was always driven
to succeed having earned black belts
in two styles of martial arts, two state
championship titles, as well as
competing at the state level in track.
But it wasn’t just physical activities,
he was also an all­state choir member,
played the trumpet in band, marked
perfect scores on the ACT in English
and Reading, and was accepted to the
Arkansas School for Advanced Math
and Sciences.
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