It was one of my secured cards with a 600 cl and about to turn a year old. I didn't think it would have an affect on my score at all but it actually increased it by 8 points!
I am happy to be on my way back to where I was before the mini app spree
which was 804. All accounts are reporting a zero balance and I am staying in the garden for a couple of years. I will focus on building business credit during that time
Starting Score: EQ FICO 777
TY! My score had initially decreased with each cc inq and with each new card that was opened. I have the exact same balances with all of them as before and I figured
all of the damage had been reported, including my AAoA being reduced by 4 yrs.
It was holding steady at 773 after all my abuse and so I decided it was time to
close that card and a few weeks later I get the SW report concerning the accout closure and score increase. So I figured it helped. How can you or I know for certain that it didn't? whether it did or not I"m doing the happy dance in my garden with all my pretty new buds of promise.
That card was barely used and I kept a 0 balance on it. I didn't consider the age of the account or the inquiry but now that I think of it, several inquiries were at least a year old ..you guys are on it! I have to admit that before I found this board, I simply pulled my cr every year to make sure everything was dropping off as it should. There wasn't a lot of baddies but enough to get denials and crappy offers for credit cards that take advantage of people with not so good records. I didn't even bother with checking my score until I came here. *looking around* I kinda like it here 
Thanks!
