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I have the same situation and would love to know how you worded your letter as well. Also - what is the "shopping cart trick"? I haven't come across that one yet.
@Anonymous wrote:Awesome! Do you happen to have a template of the letter you sent requesting the early deletion? Or is this something you did by phone? I have three items set to fall off Aug, Sep, Nov and the later one has different dates reprting to TU and EX. I would love to give this tactic a shot.
Nice job! After reading your post and a few others about early TU deletes, I decided to give it a shot on an old, paid collection set to drop in Dec. I did exactly what you did this last Friday and it came back the next day "deleted." Still waiting to hear back from EX and EQ as well, not expecting great results but we will see. They both have been good to me off and on over the last few years with deletes, so I can't bust on them too hard.
Good for you!
Thank you very much!! I just checked my myfico TU score . . . 713 because of that drop off! I'm going to be sitting pretty good once that comes off the other 2. My utlilization isn't even the best it could be either . . . about 12 or 13%.
Did you have to do a 30 day dispute and the bank never replied OR did you do it over the phone and TU just did it early?
One thing to keep in mind is that any account that is IIB does little damage to your score as the DFOD gets to the 6~7 year mark. The IIB accounts are still used to calculate your AAoa.
So if your AAOA is less than 7 years, your score will take a hit once the IIBs age off.. The reason is that the 7 years for the IIB accounts ADDS to your AAoA. If your AAoA is greater than 7 years, then you should not see a hit. Most people do not have many accounts that survive a BK.
I was very lucky to have my Electric Bill survive (25 years) and my re-habbed student loans took me up to 10 years AAoA after my BK7. Now that I have 6 credit cards, 1 car loan and a mortgage; my AAoA took a hit by a year or so. My score dropped about 3 points per every new account. After one year, I gained those three points back as my AAoA increased.
Of course, YMMV.