Rebuild 2.0 FKA I had been doing great

[OmarGB9]

Keep up the good work!

Also look into Merrick or Open Sky or Discover secured. Not sure if it's already been discussed. 

[ThetoriParadox]

I have a charge off with discover that i am paying back. 
i dont have any extra money to out towards a secured right now. Its all going to the charge offs and to savings. 

[Anonymous]

Just a heads up on the auto loan with carmax. I bought a car through them in the past and had nearly identical situation as you with pushing back 2 payments. When I called in to get my final payment amount when I finally got through those long 74 months, I was so excited to be done with it and paid them off.....well...turns out a year later when I couldn't seem to find the title....I never got it! And I had a charge off on my credit for a year from the lender! Turns out they didn't give me the additional amount owed for the extra 2 months interest and fees from extending the life of the loan from 72 to 74 months.....what a nightmare. Thus was before I looked into the forums or for any outside help. I took the settlement offer and have had this charge off auto loan on my account for years now. So depressing. I am just saying when you get near the end of the loan, be double, triple, and quadruple sure that you call several times to get the correct pay off amount that accounts for the extra interest and fees from extending the loan those 2 additional months. 

Congrats on your progress and it is so nice to see how you are coming along bit by bit!

[ThetoriParadox]

Oh my gosh that sounds terrible. 
i have the updated payoff and their system has updated my final payment date. 
thanks for the heads up! That is NOT what i want to happen!! 
i would never buy from them again as it is but especially after hearing that! 

[ThetoriParadox]

Paid off my discover CO Feels good.

Now what I have left to pay back is

company	bal
net credit	$5,019.00
Credit one	$969.45	payment plan with MIDLAND
cap 1 lgst	$2,407.44
vic secret	$483.00	payment plan with PRA
prosper	$6,704.00
amex	$1,000.00	payment plan with AMEX
cap 1 bus 55	$681.00
cap 1 sm 4802	$707.00

not including my revolvers (ALL AT 0!!!!) and my car loan 11k to go!

I am trying to get a hold of someone at cap 1 to make a payment plan with them before its sold or they sue, but can not get through... been on hold for hours at a time.

[ThetoriParadox]

Got ahold of cap 1

All three accounts are with PRA.

BUT PRA only found one and says they are not collecting on it, but i set up a payment plan anyway.

I suppose I just need to wait until PRA contacts me regarding the other two accounts?? So weird cap 1 transferred me to PRA because they were sold, and PRA can't find em. Guess I am just too quick for the system. ha. or too late...

Just stoked they are with PRA and not some other nondeleting company.

[ThetoriParadox]

This would happen to me...

The account I set up a payment plan with PRA, the only Cap 1 they could find... was from like 15 years ago... as soon as I realized that I called and cancelled the plan.

The three new CO are showing on PRAs website so I will set up a plan after I pay down a little more on the Vic Secret PRA owned account and the Credit One Midland owned.

Feeling good about progress. Upped my Amex to 50 a month and paying any small chunks extra I can via the website.

Moving small amounts of money into savings every check. And utilizing my payment plan and budget spread sheet almost daily, because I am obsessed with updating the lower numbers of what I owe. Just gotta wait now.

[Anonymous]

Keep it up. You're making every move right. You'll be clean before you know it

[ThetoriParadox]

*not an update just some thoughts haha*

Anyone else count the days, minutes, seconds until your reports update after you pay off items? OR refresh every day?

All my revolvers finally updated to 0, I am just waiting on the discover CO to update to paid. I want to see that score bump.

The revolvers updating bumped me 15 points. I am so anxious to see where I will be after the discover CO updates...

I think this reward system is encouraging me to pay things off faster. I'll take it!!

[gdale6]

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@ThetoriParadox wrote:

*not an update just some thoughts haha*

Anyone else count the days, minutes, seconds until your reports update after you pay off items? OR refresh every day?

All my revolvers finally updated to 0, I am just waiting on the discover CO to update to paid. I want to see that score bump.

The revolvers updating bumped me 15 points. I am so anxious to see where I will be after the discover CO updates...

I think this reward system is encouraging me to pay things off faster. I'll take it!!

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@ThetoriParadox wrote:

*not an update just some thoughts haha*

Anyone else count the days, minutes, seconds until your reports update after you pay off items? OR refresh every day?

All my revolvers finally updated to 0, I am just waiting on the discover CO to update to paid. I want to see that score bump.

The revolvers updating bumped me 15 points. I am so anxious to see where I will be after the discover CO updates...

I think this reward system is encouraging me to pay things off faster. I'll take it!!

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Remember one revolver needs to report a small balance otherwise it lowers Fico 8 by 10-20+ points depending on your overall profile. COs that an OC reports are typically included in utilization.