What's the most # of new accounts you've opened

[pazuzu]

in the shortest amount of time?

I'm not confessin' b/c Suze might be lurking, and she would scold me!

[Red1Blue]

I opened little more than 27 or 28 accounts in a period of 12-18 months.

[pazuzu]

Ok, since Suze has better thing$ to do:

I have 6 new TLs since October!

BUT I needed more positives reporting to balance out the negs from my BK that will show until 2011.

Message Edited by pazuzu on 02-10-2009 03:43 PM

[Anonymous]

11 new accounts in 6 months.

[haulingthescoreup]

5 on one day. (Bank of America, Chase, Home Depot store (Citi), PenFed Visa and Penfed auto loan.) That was 2/16/08.

Then Barclays on 3/10, American Express on 3/19, and HSBC Best Buy on 4/22.

Then I stopped!

That was my credit hunting; now I'm credit gardening, including having pruned the Barclays card at month 7. And I did plan all that out, btw, for about 6 months. Well, except the Barclays and BB. Live and learn!

[pazuzu]

At least you had a Barclays card to prune in the first place!

After shredding dozens of ITA letters from them last year, I did a cold online app for an Emigrant Direct card and got declined!

My BK was the only reason cited.

[MattH]

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@pazuzu wrote:

in the shortest amount of time?

I'm not confessin' b/c Suze might be lurking, and she would scold me!

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I don't think I've ever opened more than two new accounts in any three-year period of my life.

[Anonymous]

I guess I'm a wuss. I opened 2 accounts within three days, or three accounts within 4 months.

I guess I would have been more adventurous a year ago, but in the current climate, any app spree looks a bit suicidal. The two accounts were Amex and Discover, and the third was Chase. This, combined with my thin credit file, makes me tread lightly.

[fused]

I opened 2 CCs (CITI and Discover) and 1 unsecured LOC (BoA) between 07/07 - 02/08

[haulingthescoreup]

I'm glad I got mine over with when I did. I had a seriously thin file, and too many 30 days. All that new stuff was brutal at first, but it's helping in the long run, especially in diluting the proportion of accounts with baddies.