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Ready for my Mortgage to close so I can APP

OilFieldEngineer — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:38:10 GMT

So prior to my mortgage app I paid off all my credit cards except for one which I left a 100 balance on I let everything report as zero balance and my score jumped 45 points. No I am just ready for this home loan to get closed so I can use this opportunity to go for CLI and maybe a couple new accounts so I can start buying new stuff for the house. Very frustrating since discover has a pop up when I log in saying your eligable for a credit line increase. I want to click the button so bad but I know the underwriter for my loan will go crazy if they happened to find out before the loan closes.

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chnceit — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 04:54:45 GMT

Yeah I would be pulling my hair because the Discover luv button showed up! Its tempting, but you dont want to risk it.

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gettnthere — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 05:59:02 GMT

Discover is usually EXCELLENT in letting you know in advance wether it will be a sp or hp for the cli. Id go for it unless they state it will be a Hp.

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Anonymous — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:48:26 GMT

Yep I know how you feel. I have a brand new Chase Freedom in my wallet that I can't use. Sucks! Hopefully I will still close by the end of the month...coming down to the wire.

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E150GT — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:00:52 GMT

is it really that bad? I got a mortgage last year that closed in june and I remember i had a decent amount utlized on my credit cards and I had just recieved my chase slate in april. The broker asked me about my credit card I had just opened and I just told her that I did it to do a balance transfer but I hadnt been planning on buying this house and it came up so I went for it. I didnt use any of the credit line though because the stupid credit limit was a quarter of what I needed to transfer the balance. That was the only thing I heard about it and she never mentioned it again.

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Anonymous — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:19:21 GMT

They don't want me to use the Chase Freedom because I got it after preapproval. One of my conditions by the underwriter was to provide my new account number, credit limit, and current balance.

The biggest issue is making sure you still qualify a month or two after preapproval as lenders pull your credit right before closing and if it is bad, you won't close and will have to say bye bye to mortgage. Luckily, my credit reports are better than at preapproval, as my UTIL went from 28% to 26%. I did that on purpose and yes that is micromanaging but I must close on this house!! LOL

I even got a letter from the lender advising me not to charge large purchases, or obtain any new credit but those guidelines are really credit score specific. If you barely qualify at preapproval, you definitely don't want to do those things. But my score is 43 pts above the min so my new car lease in Nov, and new Chase Freedom this month didn't ruffle any feathers but I don't want to press my luck! :-)

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E150GT — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:23:24 GMT

I see. Congrats on the houses guys. or gals

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Anonymous — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:24:52 GMT

Thanks! :-)

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OilFieldEngineer — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:38:55 GMT

They just told me not to add any new accounts. Mine is a tricky situation as they are not allowing me to use my fiance's income due to her being a non purchasing party since we are not married and her score would have hurt my approval as she did not meet min qualifications. So any new accounts could throw my DTI off making me not qualify. I am told the underwriters look at every credit account as a what if he maxxed it out scenario. So no CLI or new apps till after the ink is on the contract then its open season. I have heard discover is very good with letting you know hp or sp but I am scared to chance it.