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Fastest fool proof way to increase your credit score?

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nativenyer
Frequent Contributor

Re: Fastest fool proof way to increase your credit score?

Utilization, utilization, utilization!!!! Reduce it! Credit cards, if rebuilding credit, should be report between 1% - 7%. You’ll see a nice boost just with that.
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Egaffne2
Regular Contributor

Re: Fastest fool proof way to increase your credit score?

The biggest gain I've seen at one time on my fico score was 23 points from getting a charged off account removed through a Goodwill letter. So getting negatives removed but other than that only thing that will net a big gain is if you pay down debt and have a huge drop in utilization.
Current 2023 FICO 8 score - 760 (EX) 758 (TU) 762 (EQ) (FICO 9s seem to be significantly higher)
Starting score - 530
Discover it - $4,200
Citi Custom Cash - $6,600
CFNA Firestone - $3,200
Amex BCE - $2,500
Mission Lane - $1,100
Chase slate (AU) - $3,000
Chase Freedom Flex - $11,100
Lowes Advantage card - $10,000
PNC poop points- $4,500
2 student loans 93% paid off
AMEX loan only 7% paid off so far
Total current Utilization among all accounts- 20%


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