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After reading through the forums more, I'm not sure there's any credit reporting advantage to my trying to wait out a new lender (have been in rehab for a year and a half now). Below is a list of various tradelines showing on my three reports - is there anything I'm losing credit-wise by consolidating instead?
EXPERIAN
FIRST TN BK/EDFNCL SVCS
Status: Transferred,closed/Never late. Deferred, payments begin Dec 2002.
Status Details: This account is scheduled to continue on record until Aug 2011.
Date Opened: 01/2001
Reported Since: 03/2001
Date of Status: 08/2001
Last Reported: 08/2001
Type: Installment
Terms: 120 Months
Monthly Payment: $0
Responsibility: Individual
Credit Limit/Original Amount: $5,000
High Balance: NA
Recent Balance: NA
Recent Payment: NA
(there's a second TL that's identical, but in the amount of $5,500.)
TN STUDENT ASSISTANCE CO
Status: Account charged off. $10,729 written off.
Status Details: This account is scheduled to continue on record until Oct 2009.
Date Opened: 01/2003
Reported Since: 05/2003
Date of Status: 05/2003
Last Reported: 05/2003
Type: Installment
Terms: NA
Monthly Payment: $0
Responsibility: Individual
Credit Limit/Original Amount: $10,729
High Balance: NA
Recent Balance: $11,317 as of 05/2003
Recent Payment: $0
Account History: Charge Off as of May 2003
TRANSUNION
STUDENT LOANS
Balance: $0
Date Updated: 08/2001
High Balance: $5,500
Past Due: $0
Terms: $50 for 120 months
Pay Status: Paid or Paying as Agreed
Account Type: Installment Account
Responsibility: Individual Account
Date Opened: 01/2001
Date Closed: 08/2001
Loan Type: Student Loan
Remark: Transferred to another lender
(there's a second TL that's almost identical, but in the amount of $5,000.)
EQUIFAX
Edfin Serv
Status as of [?] Feb, 2003
Date opened [?] Jan, 2001
Date of last activity [?] Jan, 2003
Date closed [?] Not Reported
Loan type [?] Not Reported
Largest past balance [?] $5,000
Terms [?] Not Reported
Account Type [?] Installment
Account holder [?] Individual
Scheduled payment amount [?] $0
Descriptions [?]
Student loan assigned to government
No contact information provided by Equifax
Balance [?] Current Status [?] Past Due Amount [?]
$0 Pays account as agreed Not Reported
Seven year payment history [?]
30 days late 0 times
60 days late 0 times
90+ days late 2 times (Dec 2002, Nov 2002)
(another TL nearly identical, but loan amount was $5,500)
First Tnbk
Status as of [?] Aug, 2001
Date opened [?] Jan, 2001
Date of last activity [?] Aug, 2001
Date closed [?] Not Reported
Loan type [?] Not Reported
Largest past balance [?] $5,000
Terms [?] Not Reported
Account Type [?] Installment
Account holder [?] Individual
Scheduled payment amount [?] $35
Descriptions [?]
Account transferred or sold
No contact information provided by Equifax
Balance [?] Current Status [?] Past Due Amount [?]
$0 Pays account as agreed Not Reported
Seven year payment history [?]
30 days late 0 times
60 days late 0 times
90+ days late 0 times
(another TL nearly identical, but for $5,500)
Does anyone happen to have any advice on this? I'm hoping to buy a home a year from now and I absolutely will not qualify with loans still in rehab. I completed the rehab over a year ago, but am waiting on a lender.
I know I can consolidate, but my understanding is that it will add a new tradeline, and the old ones will stay, correct? Notice I have a charge-off on one of the reports.
I can't figure out the impact to my scores of waiting vs consolidation and don't know where else to go for help. Or, if any of you have any good ideas about resources available to figure this out, I will be happy to do that (for instance, would an ombudsman be able to advise on this? maybe my bank?).
Thanks in advance!
Hello,
Have you attempted to see if a consolidation with direct loans can fulfill the rehab requirements?
@Anonymous wrote:Hello,
Have you attempted to see if a consolidation with direct loans can fulfill the rehab requirements?
Hi, thanks for answering! Yes I did, and it will, but I'm still waiting for a lender in an attempt to get my guarantor tradeline fixed. I am hoping to be in a new home a year from now, so I'll give it a little more time, I guess...
@Anonymous wrote:
Perhaps, your gurantor is working on allowing the consolidaton immedately after rehab using an intermediary bank. I would follw uo regularly, I don't see why more guarantors are not doing this. USA Funds is allowing the consolidation as part of their rehab as long as you fill the app out prior to making the final payment. My loans went to Sallie Mae servicing and the consolidation is currently in the Certification phase.Perhaps with a little nudging you may be able to have this option since you've been waiting and paying so long. Keep us updated.
Thank you for your responses!
I'm eligible now for consolidation - I've been making on-time payments since April 2008. I was just hoping I could get a lender instead of consolidating to complete the rehab, since the impact on my credit score would be better this way.
I called the guaranty agency this morning and explained my situation - I asked if there was any news on the lender situation, and said I knew they could not advise me on what to do and wasn't asking for that, just wondering if there is any general info they could share that I could use to make my decision.
They said they were hopeful they'd have a lender by October, and recommended that I wait until at least then before consolidating, since rehab will be better for me. My charged-off loan is scheduled to fall off in October, but if I can get it to update to PAA with no lates, that would hopefully be better for my score than not having it there at all.