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Congrats! on making it thru the spree in pretty good shape
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Did your mortgage report to your reports? You should let it do and sit tight for 6 months than do your app spree IMO.
@Anonymous wrote:
Tntexans82, no we literally got the keys on Friday so the mortgage will not likely report until after our first payment in Dec. That being said, I would normally agree with you: a few months of timely payments and my score will be good enough that app spree should be easy. Except that this is a VA loan and according to my score we landed a highish interest rate: 4.1% with a points buy down (paid for by the seller, not us). In 6 months I want to show an excellent credit score so we can shave .25% off the interest rate and do a streamlined refi. Since I only had 1 cc and 1 store card, and my total avail credit was a mere $2000, I would not be maximimizing my financial or credit portfolio EVER. If I carry even a tiny balance on more that 1 card my score plummets. If I pay them both to zero. My score plummets. If I carry more than $150 on one month on one card my score plummets. Not only did I need room, I needed the CLs to Max UTIL ratios and keep my score climbing. I need to get rebucketed to have a chance to shoot for 700 plus scores in 6 months. While your advice is sound, it's not right for my specific goals and credit profile. Also, it's not like I opened with credit one just to max my score. All my cards are prime cards.
you did real good. remember... new credit + new home = major debt to some of us. you have plenty of time to make your home your own so, do a little, pay it off, rinse, repeat.
congrats
now lock the apps down in the garden for however long it takes (6-9-12 months) in CLI mode and you can probably pick most any card you want.