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~20 Point Drop Less Than 24 hours!

My FICO score dropped nearly 20 points when Bank of America sold my loan to PennyMac Loans (not at my request). I went from 788 to 765 becuase the BOA loan now says "closed." According to PennyMac, they will not begin reporting to the credit companies until October/November. However, according to FICO, the BOA loan payment (excellent/never late) will not count in my score and PennyMac showing up could possibily cause my score to drop more as it is a "new: lender and loan. 

 

I normally wouldn't be soooooo concerned with FICO. But I am shopping for a car loan and was offered 0.9% interest because my FICO was more than 780. Now it's not. 

 

Will my score recover once PennyMac officially reports? I am making payments to them as of 7/1. 

 

Has anyone else experienced this? 

 

 

 

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9CLINE
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Re: ~20 Point Drop Less Than 24 hours!

First let me say welcome to the forum.......I have seen this when some of the card companies sell accounts.. Of course it isn't fair to the customer who had no control over the sale. What you will more likely see that when the PennyMac reports that your account is dated to the original date instead of being new like you just got it,,therefore the score would improve again. If I'm not mistaken the BOfA loan should still report even though closed for up to 10 yrs. from what is discussed here... I'm not an expert though,, You've raised some interesting questions that will benefit a lot of people when settled.. I am sure the experts here will weigh in on how this works...
You're in the right place for info....Please keep us posted as this plays out

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Anonymous
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Anonymous
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A score of 765 is still top tier, so this won't impact your auto loan APR.

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brightsprite
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Re: ~20 Point Drop Less Than 24 hours!

I had the same situation when my mortgage loan was sold. I had a 2 month period where the original mortgage showed as closed, and the new company wasn't reporting yet--my score also went down. Once the new company started reporting, they reported the original loan date, and my score recovered. My report still shows the loan with the original mortgage loan, but it appears as closed, balance $0. There won't be any long term effect of the "new" loan once it starts reporting, though it sounds like this timing is inconvenient  

Scores: EX: 690 (FICO 8, 03/22/2016; EQ: 695 (FICO 8, 03/22/2016); TU: 715 (FICO 8, 03/22/2016)
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Anonymous
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Re: ~20 Point Drop Less Than 24 hours!


@Anonymous wrote:

 

Has anyone else experienced this? 

 

  


Yes... http://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Understanding-FICO-Scoring/Mortgage-Servicing-Sold-and-16-18-point-hit-occurs/m-p/4073567


Posted a follow up in the thread I started, posting here, too, as this thread is newer.  CCT gave me an EX alert.  Roughly 4 +/- after my mortgage/servicing was sold/transferred and 3 +/- months after it showed closed on my EX report, it is now reporting again and 12 points returned.

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Anonymous
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Thank you!

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Anonymous
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Thank you so much. This puts me at ease. 

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