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My progress so far, one year past discharge date

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Desiflavour101
Established Member

Re: My progress so far, one year past discharge date

Was Commenity Bank included in your BK?

 

Was Chase included in your BK since you have an Amazon card?

 

What is your average utilization?

**Gardening until Sept. 2016...**
BK 7: Filed March 2013/Discharged June 2013
FICO Score: 580 at the start
Barclay Rewards VISA $2,500, Barclay Rewards MC $2,300, Capital One Quicksilver One $1,750, Capital One Quicksilver One $1,500, Care Credit $2,000, Fortiva $4,000, & Walmart $1,200.
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Scupra
Super Contributor

Re: My progress so far, one year past discharge date


@Desiflavour101 wrote:

Was Commenity Bank included in your BK?

 

Was Chase included in your BK since you have an Amazon card?

 

What is your average utilization?


Only the Amazon Visa is backed by Chase Smiley Happy

Filed BK7: 7/2012 (start score EQ 560 / TU 529) Discharge 10/2012
801 EQ FICO 06/2022
797 TU FICO 04/2022
793 EX FICO 04/2022
$30k NFCU Platinum | $30.7k NFCU cashRewards Sig | $15k NavChek | $7.1k Cap1 Quicksilver | $10k Amazon Store | $19k Cap1 VentureOne | $16k Barclay Aviator | $5k Chase Freedom | $5k Chase Sapphire Preferred | $9k Costco Visa | $20k AMEX BCE | AMEX Gold | NFCU Platinum #2 $19.3k | Apple $8.5k
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Divaofsongs
Frequent Contributor

Re: My progress so far, one year past discharge date


@Desiflavour101 wrote:

Was Commenity Bank included in your BK?

 

Was Chase included in your BK since you have an Amazon card?

 

What is your average utilization?


Yes, I had 2 Commenity Bank cards IIB.

 

Walmart store card is not with Chase, it is with GE  Money/Synchrony Bank, so is Amazon and Lowe's.

 

I IIB an old Walmart, Amazon and Care Credit card theough GE Money/Synchrony Bank.

 

GE Money is now Synchrony Bank.

 

My average total utilization is  10-12%, my highest ever utilzation since BK was 17% and my current and lowest is 1%.

 

I have never had more than 20% utilization report for any single card and normally report at 0-10%, however, Barclay's reports at 20% because I am trying to follow the guideline I read to get a CLI and they like balances of about 20%.

 

Now as far as actual utilization vs reporting utilization, I put through an average of 25-100+% of my CL for each card every month but I make multipe payments and never allow my balance to go over 25% at any given time. I want to show the CC companies that I can handle a higher credit limit but I make multiple payments m onth to ensure I never have more than 25% of my CL charged at any time.

 

It may not be the right way, but it has worked for me. Smiley Wink

Chap 7 BK Discharge Aug 2013 (Initial CL/Current CL): Discover IT ($5.5K/$32.5K) Cap1 QS ($500/$30K) Amazon ($700/$8K) Barclay's MC ($1,300/$10.3K) Upromise ($500/$33K) Lowe's ($900/$13K) Sportsman's Visa ($17K) WF Amex ($13K) AMEX BCE ($10K) AMEX Gold NPSL - FICO's: All 740+
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Taoron
Frequent Contributor

Re: My progress so far, one year past discharge date

Oops.  I hit GE bank hard, I'll probably never get a card there again.

 

I had $200 ebay credit (IIB)

I had $700 amazon credit (IIB)

I had $150 walmart credit (IIB)

 

yeah.. If I had a chance to redo that, I would have just opened the amazon credit and kept that.



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