I am 4 months away from 2 years post Ch 7 and my scores are not moving. I have 0 inquiries for months, very low utilization reporting, barely 10%. I removed myself as authorized user on my family members card because of high utilization, 100% payment history, and I’m still barely 615. I have no clue whats going on. In fact, I have my utilization decrease to 0 on my Merrick card and my score dropped 20 points. When I check my score on my nRewards it has it at 555 with Equifax?!? Discover has it at 617 with Transunion and Merrick has it at 611 with Transunion?!?
I have a 0 Balance with Discover (750 CL) , 0 Balance with Merrick (700CL) , and I left a small 120 Balance with NF nRewards. My secured card with Navy is like 15 months old and I’m wanting to close it. At this point I’m like it won’t change much since my scores are still low 600. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I even want to close my store cards I don’t use. I have 5 store cards all over a year old, but I only use Express for work and Victoria Secret. Abercrombie, Children’s Place, and NYC all have 0 balances. My Express decreased my limit from 1400 to like 600, but I got it back to 1300 limit and the balance is only 160. My Victoria Secret has 650 CL and I’ve used 90 balance. The other 3 are stuck at 250 so I don’t use them at all.
I want to buy a house, I’m saving for a down payment, but at this point with such low scores I’m just done with credit all together. I’ve seen people on this forum getting approved for cards with low scores, I’ve seen people with such great rebuilds and I’m following all the steps and nowhere near 700. I’m extremely frustrated to a point I’m willing to just pay someone to remove my BK7 off my credit so that I can buy a house.
Help! What am I doing wrong? Should I close my cards?!?
