Cell phone carrier credit pull

[Anonymous]

I am wanting to switch cell phone carriers soon, but  planning on getting pre qualified for a home this summer. Would them pulling my credit effect me badly enough to make a difference? What's the deal with these types of things. I am so careful right now about doing any detrimental hard pulls, that is makes me vervous.

[StartingOver10]

No. Go ahead and switch carriers.

[ezdriver]

Have you considered a no-contract plan? I have one with Net10 and a Samsung Galaxy 4 smart phone ... $40/month with unlimited talk, text and data [but data speed is throttled back after a certain amount]. Also, no credit pull involved. The carrier behind the scene is AT&T.

A single credit pull for such transactions will not affect your ability to secure a mortgage ... unless of course your overall credit profile is weak to begin with.

[Anonymous]

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@ezdriver wrote:

Have you considered a no-contract plan? I have one with Net10 and a Samsung Galaxy 4 smart phone ... $40/month with unlimited talk, text and data [but data speed is throttled back after a certain amount]. Also, no credit pull involved. The carrier behind the scene is AT&T.

A single credit pull for such transactions will not affect your ability to secure a mortgage ... unless of course your overall credit profile is weak to begin with.

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I am with AT&T right now and trying to get rid of them.  We are working on getting our profile cor recited right now. It's not the strongest, but by summer/fall I hope strong enough for an approval. Just have past delinquencies hurting us. 

I had read somewhere even a phone credit pull could hurt you.

[DallasLoanGuy]

it is a soft pull.  i cant see it when i pull credit

[Anonymous]

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@DallasLoanGuy wrote:

it is a soft pull.  i cant see it when i pull credit

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Awesome! Thank you!

[Peter1142]

+1 soft pull

[Lemmus]

...T-Mobile did a hard pull on my account 2 weeks ago even though the salesman swore it would be a soft pull ...doubt he knew the difference ...but it did show on all three CRs as a hard pull by a utility 

[Anonymous]

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@Lemmus wrote:

...T-Mobile did a hard pull on my account 2 weeks ago even though the salesman swore it would be a soft pull ...doubt he knew the difference ...but it did show on all three CRs as a hard pull by a utility 

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Ahhhh. That makes me nervous!

[Peter1142]

Are you sure? That sounds very strange. On all 3 CRAs...

You should file a dispute. It was not a request for credit.

If this kind of thing shows up while you are apping for a mortgage, unless you are qualifying by a few points, no big deal it is easily explained and does not affect DTI.