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Yes, your payment history will reflect on his reports being an AU. Call and have your fiance removed. Seems with 3 years of credit building themselves, timely payment, low utilization, the scores should improve.
In underwriting, they may request any AUs to be removed to gauge their personal credit worthiness. An AU for scoring purposes should only be if the person they are using is using a card with a good bit longer credit history than their own. Example card was open 5 years or more, and they only had a month to a year history. It must be either 0 or low utilization, as they will be using their cards also for payment history. Try having your finance paid all cards to zero except one, preferably a bank card with a balance greater than 0 but no higher than 8.9%% of total tradeline. Sometimes you can be dinged for carrying a balance, regardless of low amount, on over 2. 3 cards or more.
Even though you state he has 3 years history on his own, does he have an derogs on his reports? Previous lates (not the AU account he is on with you), collections, a BK?
His credit history is older than your AU card, both have derogs, or scorecard is dirty. It is not helping him at all keeping him on yours.
His paid collections, did he ask for a pay for delete? Sometimes it can be up to 60 days for removal if they agreed. Has he tried goodwill letters on the late pays on the others?
His score would only drop if you had pristine credit history the entire time with said creditor, and longer overall credit history (for length of credit history). It fits neither.
One less account with derogatory credit.
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I just removed him! Any guess how many points he will gain nowif any? Thanks so much for your wisdom!
There is really no way to know how many Fico points he is going to gain.