I know you are all hard at work with your credit goals. Have you progressed as far as you hoped? Were there any unforseen expenses that cropped up and may have thrown you off schedule?
As a reminder, participation in these monthly checkins is optional, but encouraged. The goal is to help keep you on track, so feel free to post your progress updates here. This is a no-judge zone; feel free to say what's keeping you up at night or give yourself a kudo for having it all together.
Did you hit any potholes or speedbumps? Achieve some milestones, either small or mighty? Change your goals or add new ones?
Let us know how you're doing!
Achieve two of my goals.
1 Getting real FICO scores, instead of just a Vantage 3.0 score.
2. Adding a Chase card to my credit card collection.
Now I'm planning on this month adding an Amex rose gold, for the last card to add this year.
1 Getting real FICO scores, instead of just a Vantage 3.0 score.
2. Adding a Chase card to my credit card collection.
Now I'm planning on this month adding an Amex rose gold, for the last card to add this year.
Slow and steady but, still here.
Good Luck!
On one hand, I'm a little disappointed, I got another Chase card, on the other hand, I'm not 
Still at 770 on TU since the baddies fell off, nothing negative has happened, so I assume that by the end of the year, I should be above 740 on all three CRAs.
As far as financial goals, still plugging away. My initial goal is now a huge stretch thanks to buying a new car this year, but I think I will get there 
Glad to find this thread! June was a mixed bag for me. I had a couple of baddies come off my reports, one through early exclusion and one from good will. The last two should be gone by the end of the year. I did take a hit on my Discover Card utilization. I balanced transferred an ill advised loan with a high interest rate to the card. I can now pay it down with no interest, but Discover is now showing 59% utilization and of course the score took a hit according. Oh well, gotta take the bad with the good, I suppose.
Tending the garden working toward the Diamond recognition for two years with no inquiries. Also, have maintained the Fico 800's for five years now. One stumbling block coming my way is the loss of an account from 2001 (ten years). It will hit me hard (I think?) as my next closest is 2006. Sad about that as we know unloading starter accounts is a good feeling but, can come back to haunt us later in the credit life cycle! As shown in the signature, I have been siting at Fico 08 850 for nine months now so it is a loss. Now if you hold my feet to the fire, I have to confess there is no credit product I need in the near future so all my whinning about Fico Scores is really unimportant at this time
June was fairly boring credit wise, played with some small balances but paid them all off. No movement for me at an AOYA of 3 months so no happy credit morning yesterday heh.
July is still holding pat; lost some income and have an estimated tax payment due plus the annual insurance bill landed so will get a fun balance to play with to see what it does to my scores these days, but other than playing FICO reindeer games I am just going to keep it steady so that if rates keep falling I may just refinance my mortgage and cut my payment in half somewhere around October.
As a result going to keep things tight as I have a pretty mortgage mid-score currently and not worth risking that.
July is still holding pat; lost some income and have an estimated tax payment due plus the annual insurance bill landed so will get a fun balance to play with to see what it does to my scores these days, but other than playing FICO reindeer games I am just going to keep it steady so that if rates keep falling I may just refinance my mortgage and cut my payment in half somewhere around October.
As a result going to keep things tight as I have a pretty mortgage mid-score currently and not worth risking that.