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How long have you had the 3 secured cards? Do any of your baddies report monthly still?
You may want to wait 6 months with the 3 cards then apply for a cap 1 card your scores should have improved by then.
@Mayn wrote:Just curious if anyone has gone for it and applied for a "real" cc and got approved for it with scores below 600? I would assume it would be something like a cap 1 card. And what were your scores?
Capital one seems to be pretty consistent about this lately.
Give it a shot!
No prime family cards
All of the cards in my sig I got with 580's scores. Judgements, collections, chargeoffs and no current tradelines when I applied.
@japakar wrote:No prime family cards
All of the cards in my sig I got with 580's scores. Judgements, collections, chargeoffs and no current tradelines when I applied.
Good work on those Cap1's!
I had almost considered giving CreditOne another look at one point when I was below 600 but they blacklisted me for a C/O way back when.
I had 3 C/O's total, CreditOne for $340/500, CapOne for $400/750 and BoA for $600/2,000.
I settled the BoA one but I'm still Blacklisted.
Capital One let me back in after 3yrs (I could have tried sooner, I just didn't though since I still had my AMEX which had my highest CL)
I didn't settle the CreditOne and am Blacklisted.
They all stopped trying to collect as of about 2yrs ago since the SOL here is 4yrs, plus they're all due to fall off in 6-9mos depending if the CRAs take their sweet time doing so.
Yeah I have a 1100 charge off for Cap1, shows as a restricted account on my web login. Still have to pay that judgement off.
Did not expect them to give me an account
Too bad creditone blacklisted you, so far they;ve been an ok company to work with for me.
Sounds like your reports are almost back to good condition! that is awesome, worst part of working on the credit is waiting for things to fall off the reports.
@japakar wrote:Yeah I have a 1100 charge off for Cap1, shows as a restricted account on my web login. Still have to pay that judgement off.
Did not expect them to give me an account
Too bad creditone blacklisted you, so far they;ve been an ok company to work with for me.
Sounds like your reports are almost back to good condition! that is awesome, worst part of working on the credit is waiting for things to fall off the reports.
Almost!
I hold CapOne in high regard because they will take a chance on damaged credit, even if you used them to damage it in most cases.
Some of their policies are a little quirky, like with the CLI's, but what are you gonna do.
They're a good step up from the usual scum lender fee harvesters that also accept people with low scores.
I would let your account age, don't keep balances- let FICO do its thing. If you app- just try the prequal sites first..
@Anonymous wrote:I would let your account age, don't keep balances- let FICO do its thing. If you app- just try the prequal sites first..
+1
I had both the Cap1 Plat and Cap1 Quicksilver1 show up on the pre-approval offer page, scores in 550-595 range at the time, 1 Collection, 11 Student loan baddies (late pays), 1 auto charge off from 2009. Apped and approved for both 6 months apart (Jan 14, June 14) and both are in the credit steps program - pay your bill on time each month and get auto cli at 6 months.
If the pre-approval is only showing secured, I would wait a bit more just to increase chances of success.
Try to help someone with info and ya get picked on cause you use cap lock. Lmao.
Anyway, you can go to whogavemecredit and see what cards people have, scores, cra pulled ect.
Next time I'll have to remember the cap lock/grammar/font size police are on duty.