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Long post ahead...thanks for your patience & input...
After years of battling bad credit I started making positive progress in 5/15 with a Cap1 secured card (Fico was 550ish). In early 16, I ended up with a Discover IT (unsecured) & Amazon store card...today my Fico 9 is in the 790's and I've got ~$310,000 in open credit. I makes 85k-90k a year, I have 1 installment loan, 1 time share morgage, & no auto loans. I've been gardening for the last 6 months or so & manage my portfolio well. I can safely & properly manage my cards...however, I am looking to consolidate a few cards into one or possibly just close a few lines. While I can handle them I sometimes think I just have too many.
I pay for everything on credit, including my rent, & pay most items off before the statement cuts BUT I do let 1 or 2 cards post balances regularly. I have 3 'groups' of cards I cycle through every 2-3 months so they all get used.
Major Cards...
Amex Plat - NPSL
Amex PRG - NPSL
Amex EDP (daily driver) - $24,000
Amex SPG - $10,000
PenFed Power Cash - $27,600
PenFed Promise - $22,400
BofA Alaska - $27,200
BofA CashRewards - $14,800
Cap1 QS - $28,750
Citi AA - $11,500
Citi Simp - $10,300 (don't use this anymore since the 0% intro is done)
Citi Costco - $9,000
Comm DSW - $15,000 (buy all my shoes...lol)
Discover IT - $16,000 (mainly use this for %5 categories)
Chase Amazon - $13,000 (use this for nearly all Amazon purchases)
Barclays Hawaiian - $12,000
Barclays UBER - $5,900 (pay rent on this card & getting the %5 back the way it's coded)
Barclays Aviator Red - $6,000
Blispay - $6,500
US Bank REI - $1,500
Store Cards...
Sync Amazon - $10,000
Sync Lowes - $35,000
Target MC - $5,000
I'm considering moving the Promise line to the PCR . I'm considering moving the BofA Cash to the Alaska card. I'm considering taking the HP to reallocate the Citi Simplicity line over to the AA & Coscto cards. My Sync Amazon card doesn't see anything but a small purchase once in a while...it's my oldest open account.
I'm open to suggestions...shall I trim down or just keep cycling cards occasionally? I have everything I want...more than enough open credit. Maybe I'm just bored & looking for something to do...lol...I'm not sure.
What an amazing journey you have made. Congratulations.
I don't have any advice because you seem to have this all well thought out. I do have a question, though. Your income is about the same as mine and I've been working to not let my limits go over 200K or so. The reason is I'm afraid if I see a card I really want, I will get declined for having too much credit or "pyramiding debt" as they sometimes call lots of credit limits (even if all zero balances).
Have you run into any problems with any creditors due to this issue? No problems with Barclay's? Would love to hear about your experience(s).
I haven't had any hangups. PenFed just gave me the quarterly soft pull cli for 10.2k and that put me at 50k exposure with them. Barclays was a slow one...I started with the CashForward card in 6/16 @ $1000 and it never grew...when I got the Hawaiian card @ 11k I closed the CF and rolled the limit over. The only card I've been rejected (rejected twice actually) for was the Ritz Card which I don't want anymore....no loss. Discover & Target also auto-cli'd me a couple months back...Cap1 has been a slow & steady consistent card that I plan on using as an emergency backup.