OK so I have been rebuilding and wound up with many cards in the 5k limit range. Outliers are Discover and Amex Delta with lower limits. (I will 3x Amex at 60 days) So how do I successfully end up with just 2-3 cards and maintain aprrox 30k in limits?!!? I'm ready to consolidate but don't want my UTL to suffer as a result. BTW been PIF a lot lately and some of my cards already went from 2k to 5k via CLI (soft)
Thanks for help and MANY THANKS for all past info that has helped me get this far. 
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Closed OLD capital one cards at $2250 they would not raise limit
HSN - 3 years - 2k always, never moved - PIF and ready to close (may leave open for AAoA)
USAA Amex - 4k - 15 months - never moved my limit so closing them out. PIF
Chase Slate - 5k - 13 months (getting moved to sapphire preferred signature - unknown limit) 1st siggy! WOOT!
GE/Amazon - 2.5k - 1 yr
Chase ink business (world card) - 3 months - NPSL assuming soft 5k limit
Barclays - NEW - 5k
Citi Simplicity - NEW - 3.5k (asking for recon on limit)
Discover - NEW - 1k - 6mo wait to recon limit 
I may close it - to hard to manage 1k
Amex Delta - NEW - 2k- will 3X limit at 60 days
Mortgage and Auto loans in profile all good. I think the above is roughlty most of it. Auth user on other accounts ranging from 5-12k
I just want less stuff to mange without losing available limits for UTL reasons!
I replied but not sure if it went under your post....
@gstq34 wrote:Closed OLD capital one cards at $2250 they would not raise limit
HSN - 3 years - 2k always, never moved - PIF and ready to close (may leave open for AAoA)
USAA Amex - 4k - 15 months - never moved my limit so closing them out. PIF
Chase Slate - 5k - 13 months (getting moved to sapphire preferred signature - unknown limit) 1st siggy! WOOT!
GE/Amazon - 2.5k - 1 yr
Chase ink business (world card) - 3 months - NPSL assuming soft 5k limit
Barclays - NEW - 5k
Citi Simplicity - NEW - 3.5k (asking for recon on limit)
Discover - NEW - 1k - 6mo wait to recon limit
Amex Delta - NEW - 2k- will 3X limit at 60 days
Mortgage and Auto loans in profile all good. I think the above is roughlty most of it. Auth user on other accounts ranging from 5-12k
I just want less stuff to mange without losing available limits for UTL reasons!
I don't know how you can remain at the same available CL if you want to just close all of the cards that you can't get CLIs on. You will lose the available CLs by closing those accounts. I think it's possible to get high CLs with only a couple of cards though but you're not going to get it overnight either. I would app for another Amex revolver so that you can try the 3x cli magic on that. I would actually just app for the CSP separately and move the CL from the Slate to the CSP. and then you can work on the CSP's CL. As for Discover, if you read the forums, there are numerous posts complaining about how difficult it is to get CLIs from Discover despite perfect payment history and/or heavy usage. So YMMV on that one.
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@gstq34 wrote:Closed OLD capital one cards at $2250 they would not raise limit
HSN - 3 years - 2k always, never moved - PIF and ready to close (may leave open for AAoA)
USAA Amex - 4k - 15 months - never moved my limit so closing them out. PIF
Chase Slate - 5k - 13 months (getting moved to sapphire preferred signature - unknown limit) 1st siggy! WOOT!
GE/Amazon - 2.5k - 1 yr
Chase ink business (world card) - 3 months - NPSL assuming soft 5k limit
Barclays - NEW - 5k
Citi Simplicity - NEW - 3.5k (asking for recon on limit)
Discover - NEW - 1k - 6mo wait to recon limit
Amex Delta - NEW - 2k- will 3X limit at 60 days
Mortgage and Auto loans in profile all good. I think the above is roughlty most of it. Auth user on other accounts ranging from 5-12k
I just want less stuff to mange without losing available limits for UTL reasons!
I don't know how you can remain at the same available CL if you want to just close all of the cards that you can't get CLIs on. You will lose the available CLs by closing those accounts. I think it's possible to get high CLs with only a couple of cards though but you're not going to get it overnight either. I would app for another Amex revolver so that you can try the 3x cli magic on that. I would actually just app for the CSP separately and move the CL from the Slate to the CSP. and then you can work on the CSP's CL. As for Discover, if you read the forums, there are numerous posts complaining about how difficult it is to get CLIs from Discover despite perfect payment history and/or heavy usage. So YMMV on that one.
I would keep them open as well, auto luv happens with good usage.
