Good mornin'...
My wife has three oustanding student loans from the US Dept. of Education. In 2011, servicing was transferred to Direct Loans, and two of three CB's just wiped the history, showing them as opened in 2011. They were opened in 2003.
As of late 2012 they are being serviced by Granite State management. The Direct Loans accounts show as transferred/closed never late, and there are now three more new accounts under the GSM name.
If I plug this all into my spreadheet, the net effect is a dramatic change in her AAOA. Her credit looks young, with a lot of new accounts, when her file is actually very old. Am I calculating this correctly? Will these accounts affect her AAOA and subsequently her score?
This happened with a home mortgage she had at one time as well. Is there any correction built into the FICO algorithm to adjust for account transfers, or is AAOA really just that unmanageable?
pizzadude wrote:I believe this is usually what happens when accounts are transferred or sold ~ the old tradeline is closed out, and a new tradeline is opened with a new open date.
AAoA factors in all of the accounts on your reports, so unfortunately it can lower your AAoA.
That's about what I figured. It doesn't seem fair that she would be hit like that; it literally cuts her AAOA in half.
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