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Help understanding utilization, "less than 10% balance," and relationship to score.

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Re: Help understanding utilization, "less than 10% balance," and relationship to score.


@Anonymous wrote:

That's a good point... 10% will be tough to do.  It's a 3k limit, so i'll have to keep it under $300.  

Maybe i can limit it to just a few bills at first, and then shift more to it once the credit limit increases after awhile.  

Speaking of which, how can I expect credit limit to work?  Assuming my payments are always on time and my credit-to-debt ratio is very low (under 10% on both cards), how long does something like a credit increase take?  Months?  Years?


It's really not tough to do.  Cap1 has two different mobile apps that you can use to keep track of your balance and make a payment whenever you want to.  I know you want to set them up to autopay and that is good to make sure you never make a late payment, but you can still make a payment whenever.  In my experience Cap1 likes to see use on the card when evaluating for a cli. 

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