I have contacted equifax about XXXX that 's been reporting against my credit for more than over 7 years and they are refusing to remove it. Instead of removing the negative item, they keep changing the date to show that it 's not older than 7 years. Attach is a document that shows the open date to be more than 9 years old and I 'm hoping this action will finally cause equifax to remove this negative item from my credit file permanently.