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I joined this forum two years ago with an average fico score of 580 and a goal of buying a home in two years (before my daughter starts school next year). after listening to you guys and farming my accounts i've lifted my average score to 780 and will be closing on my first home October 28th (fingers crossed).
Congratulations! This is fantastic news. keep up the great work.
Wow OP, that is pretty amazing! Congrats on the new home. I am on a similar path, care to share any stats or tricks you used? as I am trying to get to 750's or above, just seems like movement has slowed once I got to 730's
*shakes fist in jealousy*
Just kidding, congrats! I've gone from 630 up to 720, but it took quite a bit longer. Charge-offs are bad enough, but it's worse when both the credit card company *and* the collector claim that they can't delete the (paid-off) account because they don't have control over it, resulting in the dang thing sitting on your report until it ages off... Grr... It *just* fell off, so I hope to see faster progress with it gone. I want to see if I hit 740 over the next few reporting cycles.
VERY aggressive debt paydown (usage is now 1% from over 80%
as many Credit Line Incresases as i could possibly get without hard pulls
disupute / age off negatives
multiple active tradelines with no negatives in history
@Anonymous wrote:I joined this forum two years ago with an average fico score of 580 and a goal of buying a home in two years (before my daughter starts school next year). after listening to you guys and farming my accounts i've lifted my average score to 780 and will be closing on my first home October 28th (fingers crossed).
High credit scores are not magic...just require self-discipline, along with a basic knowlege of what is included in the score. Congratulations on acheiving these goals.