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@Anonymous wrote:Why would you get a 5 year loan but pay it down to 8.9% the same day? Isn't the point to report payments each month for 5 years?
I for one would like to get my money back immediately instead of it being frozen.
Read the primers I posted. You'll understand the fundamentals.
That's why we love Navy. They will report monthly.
You get the FICO scoring bonus for installment loan when utility is at 8.9% or under.
Right, but why bother getting 5 years if you're paying it down to 8.9% the same day? Clearly you're not getting 5 years of payments lol.
@Anonymous wrote:Right, but why bother getting 5 years if you're paying it down to 8.9% the same day? Clearly you're not getting 5 years of payments lol.
Mmm. Fico scoring bonus? Open installment loan for 5 years instead of 1 year? The point you might be missing is future dates. You'll be building history.
@Anonymous wrote:
513credit Clearly you haven’t read about the SSL technique.
Five years of payments aren’t gonna do anything for your score (unless you miss one of those payments); on the other hand, bringing aggregate installment utilization under 8.9% is going to give you a 15 to 30 point boost. And wouldn’t that be lovely for five years?
Which would you rather have?
I have read it, but I have posted that I do not understand, so I'd like some help. How would it last for five years if you make a payment down to 8.9% when your next month's payment pays off the loan? That's defeating the purpose.. If you only make one payment, how do they report a monthly payment to give you history for those 5 years? If it's pointless to have 5 years of payments reported, whats the point of a SSL? To my knowledge it is to show that you can pay debt off...
If I give NFCU $3010 and pay them $3010, why wouldn't I get $6020 back? Why does NFCU make $3010 off of me?
@satio wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
Is this where you deposit $3,000 like Self Lender? Help me understand.The trick with the SSL is that NFCU pushes your payment due date back by however many payments you pay in advance instead of shortening the life of the loan. Since the score benefit is only good when you have an active installment loan and even further, there is an additional boost when you pay it down to 8.9% of the original amount, this means you can take out a 5 year loan ($3010 would be the minimum I would do or you could stuck with a 3 year term), pay it immediately down to 8.9% remaining, and then you get the scoring benefit for the next 5 years. Just make sure you make a small payment towards it of a couple bucks every few months so that it doesn’t go inactive on your credit report and stop counting.
I'm getting ready to do the same transaction with NFCU. Please clarify the last piece of this puzzle from your latest post.
After paying it down immediately to push out the next due payment and bring balance owed to < 8.9, I also need to make some small token payment on some sort of regular frequency between the loan date and the pushed out due date so that it remains "active" with CRAs?
I don't know but I do make a small payment each month.
@SouthJamaica wrote:
@satio wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
Is this where you deposit $3,000 like Self Lender? Help me understand.The trick with the SSL is that NFCU pushes your payment due date back by however many payments you pay in advance instead of shortening the life of the loan. Since the score benefit is only good when you have an active installment loan and even further, there is an additional boost when you pay it down to 8.9% of the original amount, this means you can take out a 5 year loan ($3010 would be the minimum I would do or you could stuck with a 3 year term), pay it immediately down to 8.9% remaining, and then you get the scoring benefit for the next 5 years. Just make sure you make a small payment towards it of a couple bucks every few months so that it doesn’t go inactive on your credit report and stop counting.
I'm getting ready to do the same transaction with NFCU. Please clarify the last piece of this puzzle from your latest post.
After paying it down immediately to push out the next due payment and bring balance owed to < 8.9, I also need to make some small token payment on some sort of regular frequency between the loan date and the pushed out due date so that it remains "active" with CRAs?
I don't know but I do make a small payment each month.
The regular payments also help to avoid any possible inactive/dormant account fees.
Dormant/inactive fees aren’t charged if you have a credit card and let’s face it, everyone on MF joining NFCU gets a card.
I believe that whether you are making payments monthly or not, NFCU won’t charge you those fees if you have an SSL but regardless it’s a good idea to make payments regularly.
I also noticed that auto pay no longer has a $5 minimum. I was going through the process to set up $2 payments this morning and it let me get to the end but I don’t want to make a payment yet so I’ll set it up next month.