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Sorry! Apparently I didn't read your entire response. Thanks for the info
Sorry for the denial.. You are deffinetly on the borderline of approval, but they saw something they didn't like in your porifle.. Have 3 Amex's with EX score around 665-670ish
Keep in mind the score isn't what really matters it is jsut a gauge, but you credit as a whole profile
Appreciate the condolonces.....these denials are a kick in the gut sometimes!! Just when you think you're making progres...
But yes, my profile is less than stellar. I have absolutely zero debt now. No collections. But I have a TON of late payments and prior negatives. In Feburary, I paid off almost $180k of student loan debt that was in default. And since it went to default, it had already changed hands a few times so my 14 original tradelines for the loans had expanded to about 33 negative tradelines.
The good news is that paying all of those off and clearing out a few old collections, I've gone from about 520 on EX to 659 in a pretty short time. Was approved for a $2k Freedom back in April which was my only approval so far. Long road ahead waiting for all that bad info to fall off though.
@Anonymous wrote:Appreciate the condolonces.....these denials are a kick in the gut sometimes!! Just when you think you're making progres...
But yes, my profile is less than stellar. I have absolutely zero debt now. No collections. But I have a TON of late payments and prior negatives. In Feburary, I paid off almost $180k of student loan debt that was in default. And since it went to default, it had already changed hands a few times so my 14 original tradelines for the loans had expanded to about 33 negative tradelines.
The good news is that paying all of those off and clearing out a few old collections, I've gone from about 520 on EX to 659 in a pretty short time. Was approved for a $2k Freedom back in April which was my only approval so far. Long road ahead waiting for all that bad info to fall off though.
wow the is a huge chunk of change... I owe 40k in SL's still at a low APR%, so just taking my time on them.
Yeah, long story. I paid about 40k of it myself and borrowed the other 140k rest from my dad. When they all went to default, they had an additional 60k in collection fees tagged on to them. Only way to waive or get rid of the collection penalties was to pay off in full. If I consolidated to get out of default or rehabbed them, the collections would capitalize and roll into the new loan.
In hindsight, I might have been better off doing one of the long term repayment plans, and possibly have some of the balance forgiven after 20-25 years. But I kinda had a financial awakening early this year and decided to just wipe them out completely. Loan from pops was a much better interest rate than the 6.8% mine were locked into as well.