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Collection or Lates???

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Collection or Lates???

Do collection accounts hurt your score more than late payments on an account?
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Anonymous
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Re: Collection or Lates???

IMO yes!  A late pay if new hurts also but I believe the collections if updated continue to hurt.
 
A late pay hurts less as they age. Collections also but the OC or CA tends to update them
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RobertEG
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Re: Collection or Lates???

Yes, and it also depends strongly on the seriousness oif the late pay.  30-day lates are minor derogs, but once they rise to 60, 90, 120+, they are major derogs that put your report into the "dirty" category.
I dont know where collection accunts fall within the FICO algorithm as to seriousness, but it is certain that the scale for other lates depends on the degree of lateness, as well as the time since the derog was reported.  No simple answer to this one!
Is a toothache more serious than a backache?
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