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Congrats on getting things back on track
Congrats! Welcome to the forum. I’ve been there too. It’s so awesome when you can see the light at the end of thtunnel and be able to touch it. If you can, try to stay away from an over abundance of store cards as you progress.
Congrats on pulling it back together. Sometimes, you just have to grin and bear it.
Congrats....
Might want to try for a little more rebuilding.. Congrats on the cards.. Definitely visit the rebuilder forums on here.. (also id already be making plans for when you want to try to be rid of the two predatory cards in your hand... (Total and Credit One) BTW try Googling the HIPAA method .. Cant discuss that on here but might help with the medical collections....
You sound like me 18 months ago. Lots of baddies, and just getting to the business of getting some positive information on your books. The advice given above was correct. I'd use those two preditory cards for a year tops, and I would make 100 percent sure you pay them off the day you use them. Use them literally once a month. Use one for a pack of gum and one for a candybar. While they are good to have in terms of building positive tradelines, those companies only exist by preying on people at the very beginning of their credit rebuild, and their finance charges and interest rates prove it. Had you been on this board sooner you'd have been steered away from them. Use the Cap1 and run as much money as you can through it so long as you can PIF monthly. Cap1 may not be the best company, but they will give you big credit limits on other cards later in life if you treat them right. For a lot of us, that Cap1 Platinum was our first step.
Your next move is to basically live on the rebuild section of this forum. I was there daily for nine months. Attack your baddies and be patient. It's gonna take some time and some you might get removed through a varying number of ways, and some you're just gonna be stuck with. One baddie of mine took nine tries to remove! But there are options. Settlements, goodwill letters, ect. These are all things you can learn about on those boards.
Good move on the Discover It, even if you had to get the secured version. It has a cashback feature that Discover will double in your first year. Plus this a card that you'll actually want in you wallet for a good long time.
Good luck!