topic Re: Secured Card in Bankruptcy

Secured Card

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 22:47:48 GMT

Hi,

ive been reading about secured credit cards, it's the only way I'm going to rebuild my. Refit becsuse I've burned too many bridges.

they keep suggesting Discover, but I've burned them too, along with C1.

does anyone else have a favorite? My bank doesn't offer it

thank you

Re: Secured Card

ntx — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 23:43:35 GMT

Hi @Anonymous and welcome!

If you qualify for membership, Navy Federal Credit Union has their nRewards card.

Also State Department Federal Credit Union has a secured card.

Both offer rewards and no annual fee, and I believe both can "graduate" to unsecured at some point.

Good luck with your search!

NTX

Re: Secured Card

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 23:50:22 GMT

@ntx wrote:
Hi @Anonymous and welcome!

If you qualify for membership, Navy Federal Credit Union has their nRewards card.

Also State Department Federal Credit Union has a secured card.

Both offer rewards and no annual fee, and I believe both can "graduate" to unsecured at some point.

Good luck with your search!

NTX

Thank you

I just got an account with NFCU. I'm going to apply soon!

Re: Secured Card

ntx — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 23:51:28 GMT

That's awesome - they've been life-changing for me and I suspect for a lot of people here as well.

Re: Secured Card

jmcmillan — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 02:35:03 GMT

Another vote for SDFCU.. instant approval for me! No annual fee, and it graduates!

Re: Secured Card

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 04:09:38 GMT

Hello, when did you all apply for the SDFCU card after discharge? Right away or did you wait a few months?

Re: Secured Card

jmcmillan — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 00:53:33 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Hello, when did you all apply for the SDFCU card after discharge? Right away or did you wait a few months?

I applied a couple weeks after discharge.

Re: Secured Card

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:34:49 GMT

@jmcmillan wrote:
Another vote for SDFCU.. instant approval for me! No annual fee, and it graduates!

I have been trying to rebuild after a bk last Jan. I just tried sdfcu for their secured and they said no. I was able to get a credit one unsecured though! I've been surprised at how many times I've been turned down for secured cards. You would think the whole point in them would be for people with bad credit. I'm up to a 650 ish score now. My credit one is about to be a year old so I was thinking of getting rid of it before the AF but I can't find a good alternative. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Discover and Captial One both said no to secured cards, as did a few credit unions. I just want to find a card with no AF to keep. Ideally secured that graduates or unsecured.

Re: Secured Card

jmcmillan — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 01:41:46 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I just tried sdfcu for their secured and they said no.

Can you provide some more details about the denial? There's no credit check on their secured card. I dischared on 12/24, and I just got two secured cards from SDFCU.

Did you apply for membership first? Are you a member of the American Consumer Council? Membership requires a hard pull, and if they aren't able to verify your identity, they won't open an account.

I haven't had a lot of luck, either, despite many other people getting approvals shortly after discharge. That's why I settled on two secured cards from SDFCU and one from OpenSky.

Re: Secured Card

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:50:26 GMT

@jmcmillan wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
I just tried sdfcu for their secured and they said no.
Can you provide some more details about the denial? There's no credit check on their secured card. I dischared on 12/24, and I just got two secured cards from SDFCU.

Did you apply for membership first? Are you a member of the American Consumer Council? Membership requires a hard pull, and if they aren't able to verify your identity, they won't open an account.

I haven't had a lot of luck, either, despite many other people getting approvals shortly after discharge. That's why I settled on two secured cards from SDFCU and one from OpenSky.

I put that I would join ACC, I haven't received a reason letter, online app status check just says "declined". I did get a hard pull to my credit

Re: Secured Card

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:59:44 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@jmcmillan wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
I just tried sdfcu for their secured and they said no.
Can you provide some more details about the denial? There's no credit check on their secured card. I dischared on 12/24, and I just got two secured cards from SDFCU.

Did you apply for membership first? Are you a member of the American Consumer Council? Membership requires a hard pull, and if they aren't able to verify your identity, they won't open an account.

I haven't had a lot of luck, either, despite many other people getting approvals shortly after discharge. That's why I settled on two secured cards from SDFCU and one from OpenSky.

I put that I would join ACC, I haven't received a reason letter, online app status check just says "declined". I did get a hard pull to my credit

@jmcmillan denied for card due to no membership, membership is processing, I emailed them and asked them if they needed anything besides my DL and sscard that I uploaded, waited a week, no response, emailed again they said they needed a utility bill. Uploaded it and they just did another hard pull. I applied for both a membership and secured card at the same time because it advertised you can do that on the secured card info page on their website, just got approved for membership but will have to reapply for secured.

Re: Secured Card

jmcmillan — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 01:38:56 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@jmcmillan denied for card due to no membership, membership is processing, I emailed them and asked them if they needed anything besides my DL and sscard that I uploaded, waited a week, no response, emailed again they said they needed a utility bill. Uploaded it and they just did another hard pull. I applied for both a membership and secured card at the same time because it advertised you can do that on the secured card info page on their website, just got approved for membership but will have to reapply for secured.

Re-apply, and make sure you upload your driver license and utility bill. On my first secured credit card, I had to call them because they didn't respond after I uploaded my documents. It feels like they have a small team working on these applications.

Re: Secured Card

Credit_Master — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 02:30:10 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@jmcmillan wrote:
Another vote for SDFCU.. instant approval for me! No annual fee, and it graduates!
I have been trying to rebuild after a bk last Jan. I just tried sdfcu for their secured and they said no. I was able to get a credit one unsecured though! I've been surprised at how many times I've been turned down for secured cards. You would think the whole point in them would be for people with bad credit. I'm up to a 650 ish score now. My credit one is about to be a year old so I was thinking of getting rid of it before the AF but I can't find a good alternative. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Discover and Captial One both said no to secured cards, as did a few credit unions. I just want to find a card with no AF to keep. Ideally secured that graduates or unsecured.

If you are a member of the American Consumer Council from joining SDFCU you can join Andrews FCU also using your ACC membership. I joined Andrews due to their secured card having rewards and no credit check. I am not sure if the card will graduate or unsecure though. I just opened a Savings account as I already have too many checking accounts to monitor.

Re: Secured Card

jmcmillan — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 18:17:16 GMT

@Credit_Master wrote:
If you are a member of the American Consumer Council from joining SDFCU you can join Andrews FCU also using your ACC membership. I joined Andrews due to their secured card having rewards and no credit check. I am not sure if the card will graduate or unsecure though. I just opened a Savings account as I already have too many checking accounts to monitor.

I did not know that, thank you for the tip!

Re: Secured Card

Bippy_33 — Mon, 17 May 2021 23:02:52 GMT

@jmcmillan I've hit my 1 year mark with the card and as a matter of fact my 13th statement cuts tomorrow 5/18/21 so, I'm still waiting to see if it graduates. I sent them an email asking about it but, they still haven't gotten back to me yet so, hopefully after tomorrow I'll have good news to pass along.

Re: Secured Card

jmcmillan — Mon, 17 May 2021 23:55:34 GMT

@Bippy_33 I'm on the edge of my seat. Good luck!

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Bippy_33 — Tue, 18 May 2021 01:07:55 GMT

Thank you ! Let's hope they keep their promise at the 1 year mark. Payments always on time & 1% utilization the entire time.

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Papa_Bear — Tue, 18 May 2021 05:56:57 GMT

@Bippy_33 Good luck. I think many of us are coming up right behind you for potential graduation.

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Horseshoez — Tue, 18 May 2021 15:15:49 GMT

@Bippy_33 wrote:
@jmcmillan I've hit my 1 year mark with the card and as a matter of fact my 13th statement cuts tomorrow 5/18/21 so, I'm still waiting to see if it graduates. I sent them an email asking about it but, they still haven't gotten back to me yet so, hopefully after tomorrow I'll have good news to pass along.

Which secured card do you have? Some card issuers are better than others when it comes to graduation.

Re: Secured Card

tammyjk — Wed, 19 May 2021 04:12:06 GMT

I joined them less than 6 mos ago and I'm not even three years post bk....today I got 20k credit card. I was shocked.