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My Journey 580 - 780

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Anonymous
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My Journey 580 - 780

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).

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ScarlettClone
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Re: My Journey 580 - 780

Congratulations! This is fantastic news. keep up the great work.

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EvolvingCreditDiva2
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Re: My Journey 580 - 780

Wowww! Congrats!
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Sylvrbak
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Re: My Journey 580 - 780

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

Began my personal credit Renaissance April 2014 with scores I the 590's, thanks to all your experiences myfico - all mortgage scores in the 730's.
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CrankyDave
Regular Contributor

Re: My Journey 580 - 780

*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.

 

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Anonymous
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Re: My Journey 580 - 780

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

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Anonymous
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Re: My Journey 580 - 780

Nice congrats. Always good to see that there is a light at the end of the tunnel
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sarge12
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Re: My Journey 580 - 780


@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.

TU fico08=812 07/16/23
EX fico08=809 07/16/23
EQ fico09=812 07/16/23
EX fico09=821 07/16/23
EQ fico bankcard08=832 07/16/23
TU Fico Bankcard 08=840 07/16/23
EQ NG1 fico=802 04/17/21
EQ Resilience index score=58 03/09/21
Unknown score from EX=784 used by Cap1 07/10/20
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Anonymous
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Re: My Journey 580 - 780

Ah sarge but there lies the magic for some. What is this mystical self discipline you speak of?
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