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Yes you can avoid interest since your statement cut date and your due date are two different things and happen on different days. If you can ensure you balance is $0 on the due date and $350 on the statement cut date then you will achieve 1% utilization. You only need to do this if you are seeking more credit for that particular month though. No need to worry about utilization unless you are seeking credit or it is a problem where you are over 80% utility (not your case).
the rule is 1-9% on a single card with the rest of the cards reporting 0 for best score. And it doesn't matter which card has the balance showing you can have it show on a $500 CL card so the maximum be less than $50 for 9% or $5 for 1% showing.
^This is incorrect information. FICO scoring takes overall utilization into account. When we say 1-9% to maximize scoring we are talking about the overall utilization so on 100k in credit you would need 1k-9k balance on 1 card.
FICO seems to be okay as long as there is at least some balance reporting. Score-wise, its never mattered if I let $1 or $5000 report.
..should have red this post first. In the past two months I started testing how the reaction woud be reporting 7% or 0% on my cards. Now I know that 0 balance reporting on all cards gets punished and it is better to report 1-9% on 1 card at least. Just lost 7 points for reporting 0 balance on all my accounts
@Jlu wrote:Yes you can avoid interest since your statement cut date and your due date are two different things and happen on different days. If you can ensure you balance is $0 on the due date and $350 on the statement cut date then you will achieve 1% utilization. You only need to do this if you are seeking more credit for that particular month though. No need to worry about utilization unless you are seeking credit or it is a problem where you are over 80% utility (not your case).
Not quite true.
You only need to pay the statement balance by the due date to avoid interest and leave the current months charges unpaid so they can report. .