Just thought I'd share my experience. Checked Chase prequalification page and saw I was prequalified for the Freedom Unlimited, Slate, and CSP. I'm at 6 reporting (also have 3 new Amex that haven't hit my report yet) and they are all within the past 8 months. My scores are EQ 694, TU 708, and EX 702. They pulled TU and EX. SL of $2,500. Not too bad! Think I should recon the SL when I receive the card? The approval page said to call if the SL doesn't meet my needs. My current cards are Cap1 QS $750 CL, Local CU Visa with $500 CL (which they told me would be an HP for CLI grr), Target RedCard $300 CL, Neiman Marcus card $1100 CL, closed overstock card (had $1800 CL), closed Williams-Sonoma Visa (had $1000 CL), Amex BCE $5000 CL, Amex Everyday $10000 CL, and Amex Platinum NPSL. I have a checking account with Chase, and a savings account and installment loan with Alliant CU. My util. is around 2%. I don't know if my file is considered 'young', the oldest accounts on my reports are from 8/16, but back in 2007-2008 I had baddies that are long gone. I had a credit card that was charged off and some tickets that went to collection. Since then I had been completely off the credit radar until last august. I pretty much have all the cards I want so I think I'll be heading to the garden. Thoughts on what I should do about/with the low limit cap1 and CU cards?
Kind of have everything I want now, creditwise. Undeliberately gardening until I have some spending to do and find a 100,000 Amex Platinum offer lol
Started my credit journey August 2016, after abstaining from credit for years after some poor financial choices in high school. Started with scores in the 580s. Current scores 11/6/18 - EQ: 754 TU: 757 EX: 743
From oldest to newest: DuPage CU Visa Platinum, SL 500 now 3750, Cap1 Platinum SL 300 PC'd to QS now 1600, Alliant Credit Union Share Secured Loan $500, Amex BCE SL 5000 now 600, Neiman Marcus SL 700 now 10000, Target RedCard SL 400 now 2900, Amex ED SL 10000 now 500 (combined with Cash Magnet), Chase AARP SL 800 now 3300, Chase Amazon Prime SL 1000 now 10000, Honda Lease, Discover it SL 1000 now 7000, Synchrony PayPal 2% CB SL 3000 now 10000, Barclays Uber Visa SL 800 now 2100, Citi ThankYou Preferred SL 3300 now 5300, Chase Ritz-Carlton SL 10000 now 1500 (moved to other cards to get annual fee refund), Comenity Total Rewards Visa SL 2000 now 3250, US Bank Cash+ SL 500 recon'd to 10000, US Bank Reserve LOC 1000, Union Bank Rewards Visa SL 5000 now 5000, Amex Cash Magnet SL 9900 now 20000, Cap1 Venture SL 10000 now 10000, Discover it 3000 SL now 4000, Amex SPG Luxury 3100 SL now 3100, Amex Amazon Business Prime 10000 SL now 10000, Amex Gold NPSL, US Bank Premier LOC 5000, US Bank Visa Platinum 5400 SL currently reconning
Combined revolving CL $135,300
Goal: Spring 2019 800+ club, $50,000 combined Amex limit
