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Medic981
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Re: secured cards, loans


@Anonymous wrote:

Thanks for that info thats what i needed to know, one question if I had a credit builder loan and made a large payment early on to bring the ballance down to below half of the limit do you think that would be benneifitial ?


Extremely Beneficial! The technique is to add a small "share secure" installment loan to your credit profile.  After you do that, you then quickly pay off most of it, so that you owe < 9% of the original loan amount.  You then keep the loan open for the whole term of the loan (e.g. 4-5 years).

 

https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Understanding-FICO-Scoring/Adding-an-installment-loan-the-Share-Secure-technique/m-p/4506756#M106741







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