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Making payments toward principal will be reported as a separate payment on my monthly report?

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cashorcharge
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Re: Making payments toward principal will be reported as a separate payment on my monthly report?

I have been making additional car payments on a lease and the only benefit is that the percentage balance of the loan is decreasing faster than it should so the new balance reports but it's not doing anything else.

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Anonymous
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Re: Making payments toward principal will be reported as a separate payment on my monthly report?


@Anonymous wrote:


As @Anonymous explained in another thread, she ended up with a mid-700 score after a year. As we tell people here all the time, a young or "thin" 750 is great but will not carry the same weight with a lender as a 750 with five or ten years under its belt. Scores are built on reliability, and earning a 700+ in six months is all well and good, and a great start, but it lacks the key ingredient - time. Maintaining a 700 for a few months isn't tough. Having it ten years down the road carries a lot more weight. It proves you really can manage finances. 


Well said, @Anonymous ! I agree 1000% with all of that.

 

My credit file is 3 years 4 months old, and I've only had credit cards for 2yrs 4mo of that. I've said several times before on this forum that I don't think my profile really proves very much until a minimum of 5 years.

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Anonymous
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Re: Making payments toward principal will be reported as a separate payment on my monthly report?

The good thing is, @Anonymous , you're doing a proper buildup and your profile is already more solid than many with years more on them. At five years, let alone ten, yours will be bulletproof. Definitely one of the shining examples of How To Do It Smiley Happy

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SouthJamaica
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Re: Making payments toward principal will be reported as a separate payment on my monthly report?


@Anonymous wrote:

THx a LOT

So the moral to the story I think is better to get two or 3 loans vs one loan, since that will generate more payments in shorter amount of time.


Absolutely not.  Every loan you get is another weight on your scores.


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Slabenstein
Valued Contributor

Re: Making payments toward principal will be reported as a separate payment on my monthly report?


@SouthJamaica wrote:

@Anonymous wrote:

THx a LOT

So the moral to the story I think is better to get two or 3 loans vs one loan, since that will generate more payments in shorter amount of time.


Absolutely not.  Every loan you get is another weight on your scores.


+1  "Number of on time payments" is a CMS/VantageScore thing and is not a scored metric in FICO.  FICO payment history looks at the recency, severity, and to some extent number of late payments reporting and how many of your accounts have ever been late.  You can't swamp the metric by taking out multiple lines to have a larger number of "positive" payments.  Usually, the most you can hope for in taking out additional installments is that your scores not go down due to their impact on aging metrics, # of accounts w/ a balance, b:l ratio, and dollars owed.  As @Anonymous said, refer back to the answers in your other thread for best practices in growing a new profile.


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Anonymous
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Re: Making payments toward principal will be reported as a separate payment on my monthly report?

attempted money laundering.

Lol, right! this was crucial

so I first open those 3 Secure cards each $1000, and then quickly will open three loans of 100K, 1K and 1K, pay off 92%(or as much as I have 13 payments left) right off the bat, and make 13 payments until the closure.

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FinStar
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Re: Making payments toward principal will be reported as a separate payment on my monthly report?

 

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Anonymous
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Re: Making payments toward principal will be reported as a separate payment on my monthly report?


@Anonymous wrote:

attempted money laundering.

Lol, right! this was crucial

so I first open those 3 Secure cards each $1000, and then quickly will open three loans of 100K, 1K and 1K, pay off 92%(or as much as I have 13 payments left) right off the bat, and make 13 payments until the closure.


Ok, you do you. 

 

/thread

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coldfusion
Credit Mentor

Re: Making payments toward principal will be reported as a separate payment on my monthly report?


@FinStar wrote:

 

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