My gosh lol, and I don't think I'm done yet, still have a few other credit unions to check out.
I've been on the forums before but I think because of inactivity my account was erased. So I'll give my cards prior to the new stuff, which totaled almost 200K you'll see all of them below. I hadn't opened a new card in about 2 years and at this point these were almost all paid off. I let my inquiries definitely decrease before starting this spree.
| Sun Coast Credit Union | $ 15,000 |
| PenFed Gold | $ 17,500 |
| First Financial FCU Signature Rewards | $ 15,000 |
| Langley Signature Rewards | $ 16,000 |
| Chartway Signature Rewards | $ 15,000 |
| SkyPoint FCU | $ 15,000 |
| PenFed Power Cash | $ 10,000 |
| DCU Platinum | $ 10,000 |
| PayPal Credit | $ 10,000 |
| FNBO Signature | $ 4,350 |
| Lowe's | $ 1,500 |
| BB&T Cash Rewards #3 | $ 6,500 |
| BB&T Bright #2 | $ 6,500 |
| SunTrust Cash Rewards | $ 6,500 |
| Discover Chrome | $ 3,800 |
| PNC Rewards | $ 3,400 |
| EverBank | $ 5,000 |
| BB&T Cash Rewards #4 | $ 4,500 |
| BB&T Bright #3 | $ 4,500 |
| BB&T Bright #1 | $ 4,500 |
| BB&T Travel Rewards | $ 4,500 |
| Best Buy | $ 4,000 |
| BB&T Rewards | $ 3,500 |
| Citi Double Cash | $ 3,000 |
| Synchrony Bank | $ 2,500 |
| BB&T Cash Rewards #1 | $ 2,500 |
| BB&T Cash Rewards #2 | $ 2,000 |
| Bank of America | $ 1,500 |
| PayPal Mastercard | $ 1,100 |
| | $ 199,150 |
Once my scores all went above 750 I began the spree, see below. I wanted to thank all the members that contribute to this forum because this wouldn't have been possible without you. I targeted CU's because they've always treated me well as you can see above. I combed through searches by titles then also looked at the different cards in the different profiles for the targets below, I think most of you will see some of these have been common around here (Jovia for example). As a data point, I recently got bumped to 135K salary at work so I think that was a driver as well, but they just kept approving me...these are all unfenced by one way or another I believe, except maybe Advance Financial FCU, since they are local to me:
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Service Credit Union Elite Rewards: $30,000
Harvard FCU: $25,000
Michigan State FCU: $20,000
Farmers Insurance (FIGFCU): $20,000
Advance Financial FCU: $18,000
Jovia Credit Union: $15,000
Suncoast Credit Union Signature Rewards CLI: $15,000
Ashley Furniture Card: $12,000 (was shopping for furniture)
KeyPoint FCU: $5,000
Synchrony Bank MasterCard CLI: $2,500
Mind you, this is all in the span of about a week, and multiple a day. Most have pulled Experian, and additionally some Equifax, but most all did pull Experian and they didn't care about all the inquiries, which at the start were pretty low around 5 but obviously now are much higher. The latest approval was TODAY, so I'm going to keep pushing until someone rejects me! Let me know if you have any questions.
Starting Score: 789