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 check-ins is optional, just encouraged. The goal is to help keep you on track, so feel free to post your progress updates here. This is a judgment-free 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!
Still plugging along keeping up my 100% on time payments.
still 0/24 on inq and new credit with all three CRAs.
AAoA 2 years 4 months. 5 revolvers, no open installments, no baddies, no new credit.
Starting score was 505 in December 2021
current fico8s are 771eq, 770tu, and 763ex.
working towards this years goal of 780 and shopping for two new cards.
Another page flipped on the calendar, another month spent in the garden.
I did accept an AmEx invitation to upgrade my BCE to a BCP (wavied first year AF, $150 sub) but no HP for that.
Just hanging out in the garden for another month; will likely have an app next month if all goes well.
Still in the garden. Got a slight bump in my TU Fico 8 to 597 which is nice. EX and EQ are both about 25 points higher. Still waiting to see what happens if/when my student loans update. EQ is showing paid closed and did not seem to take a hit. The myfico simulator says to expect hits to both EX and TU. If it happens I will just open a SSL loan and pay it to 8%. Time to hurry up and wait. Cheers!
EQ : 674
Things are okay!
The good:
I paid off all my charge offs. What a relief. Next month, I'm onto student loans. Slowly but surely...progress. I cannot wait for those balances to all be zero soon.
Tonight, I just sent my first goodwill letters to the chargeoffs on my account, and I disputed a late incorrectly reported that is showing up on Experian. For the goodwill letters, I am using a mailing service, so I figure the next rounds of sending these out will be even easier, with addresses saved, etc. 
The not-so-good:
I made a boo boo today and did an accidental hard pull. It's just going to be what it's going to be. We are imperfect, us humans I got a little overeager in trying to get "grownup" credit cards without checking to see if those COs were showing as paid, and I thought that BOA was preapproving me. (They weren't!)
I am trying to have faith that once those balances are zero, I'll be able to get one premium-ish Visa and one BCP Amex, and then I will garden and just send a mountain of goodwill letters, while working on my savings as hard as I can so that a mortgage is in my future in the next 1-2 years.
Happy it's summer! Thankful for this board that is teaching me so much.
Oooh I forgot to note the biggest financial shift for me. I am moving to a smaller place that's 40% cheaper than my current beloved apartment, in order to be able to save more money to buy my own place. I have been looking for the right situation--I'm pretty picky and I wanted it to be worth my while--and I found it this month. It's with roommates who are friends of mine. I have lived alone a long time, and I am honestly pretty nervous about this change, but I am hopeful it will put me in a better position in a year. I'm moving on the first--starting to pack now. Eyes on the prize.
Hello, it is time for my monthly check in. My goal, which I set through Chase Credit Journey, is to have a score of 721, using Experian Vantage3, by 5/20/25. My current score is 702. Last month it was 688, so I am up 14, which is good news. (My Experian FICO 8 score is 708, Equifax FICO 9 is 714, and TransUnion FICO 8 is 711. My FICO score are higher because I have some really old closed credit). My current aggregate usage is 38%. To achieve my goal, I have to lower my credit usage on another card to below 50%, and to pay down the total balance to below $10,400 and bring the aggregate usage to 29%. I project that I should be able to do this by Sept 30. So I am not at my goal yet, but I am making good progress.
(By the way, I have some footer information, but I can't edit it until I am no longer considered to be a new member. This would require me to post a few more times).
