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A12, 10, and 3 pt drop when loan paid off, 3 pt increase on a cc inquiry. HUH?

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A12, 10, and 3 pt drop when loan paid off, 3 pt increase on a cc inquiry. HUH?

Al ittle over a month ago I paid off a loan that I had for 18 months. Last week I received alerts that my scores dropped across the board, EX 12 pts, TU 10, and EQ 3. I didn't think my scores would drop like that, especially since I have 3 other installment loans still reporting.

 

Also, after after applying for and being accepted for 2 CU cc's this week, I received an alert from EQ that I had a 3 pt increase. Is this because I replaced the paid off installment with another line of credit?

 

Can anyone explain what happened here??

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Scupra
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Re: A12, 10, and 3 pt drop when loan paid off, 3 pt increase on a cc inquiry. HUH?


@Anonymous wrote:

Al ittle over a month ago I paid off a loan that I had for 18 months. Last week I received alerts that my scores dropped across the board, EX 12 pts, TU 10, and EQ 3. I didn't think my scores would drop like that, especially since I have 3 other installment loans still reporting.

 

Also, after after applying for and being accepted for 2 CU cc's this week, I received an alert from EQ that I had a 3 pt increase. Is this because I replaced the paid off installment with another line of credit?

 

Can anyone explain what happened here??


What is your utilization like? Did the addition of the new revolving lines happen to pad your overall util causing a score increase? How many revolving TL's did you have prior to the 2 new ones?

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Anonymous
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Re: A12, 10, and 3 pt drop when loan paid off, 3 pt increase on a cc inquiry. HUH?

I only had one cc at the time they dropped my score, SDFCU secured for 500, util under 10%. Like I said, I don't understand the drop, when I had other installment loans outstanding.

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Scupra
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Re: A12, 10, and 3 pt drop when loan paid off, 3 pt increase on a cc inquiry. HUH?


@Anonymous wrote:

I only had one cc at the time they dropped my score, SDFCU secured for 500, util under 10%. Like I said, I don't understand the drop, when I had other installment loans outstanding.


Are the other two installment loans not far into the term? The increase on the CC side was because you now have 3 revolving TL's which is what's needed to optimize your FICO score.

Filed BK7: 7/2012 (start score EQ 560 / TU 529) Discharge 10/2012
801 EQ FICO 06/2022
797 TU FICO 04/2022
793 EX FICO 04/2022
$30k NFCU Platinum | $30.7k NFCU cashRewards Sig | $15k NavChek | $7.1k Cap1 Quicksilver | $10k Amazon Store | $19k Cap1 VentureOne | $16k Barclay Aviator | $5k Chase Freedom | $5k Chase Sapphire Preferred | $9k Costco Visa | $20k AMEX BCE | AMEX Gold | NFCU Platinum #2 $19.3k | Apple $8.5k
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Anonymous
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Re: A12, 10, and 3 pt drop when loan paid off, 3 pt increase on a cc inquiry. HUH?

No, all my other loans are older than this one.

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