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Fico Simulators

I know that the simulations are just an approximate guess, but it says that 24 months of payments on time will be 20 points and aging my cards 24 months will be 20 points as well.  All things an estimate, would that be 20 in 24 months or 40 in 24 months as both of those factors will improve? 

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thornback
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Re: Fico Simulators

Well.. hmmm.

The Experian FICO simulator has a disclaimer that combined actions will not necessarily result in the sum of score increases / decreases stemming from each individual action.

However - on time payments and account aging are two separate FICO scoring categories - so I don't think it would be too far fetched to anticipate an increase somewhere in between 20 and 40 points for both actions occurring simultaneously.
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Anonymous
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Re: Fico Simulators

That is what i was thinking as well.   Since its 2 different factors being improved upon, then in theory my score should improve due to both.  

 

Does anyone have an experience with this that could help enlighten me? 

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SouthJamaica
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Re: Fico Simulators


@Anonymouswrote:

I know that the simulations are just an approximate guess, but it says that 24 months of payments on time will be 20 points and aging my cards 24 months will be 20 points as well.  All things an estimate, would that be 20 in 24 months or 40 in 24 months as both of those factors will improve? 


I don't think the simulators are carefully designed, and I would pay them no heed.

 

IMHO aging the accounts and making your payments on time for 24 months are synonyms. Aging the accounts and not making all your payments on time will get you clobbered.


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Anonymous
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Re: Fico Simulators

Simulators are garbage IMO.  Just the other day on here someone posted about how a simulator said he would gain 10 points if he did X when in fact the person would likely gain more to the tune of 70-90 points from that event.

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NRB525
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Re: Fico Simulators

Paying all your credit accounts on time for 24 months will improve your score.

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Anonymous
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@Anonymouswrote:

Simulators are garbage IMO.  Just the other day on here someone posted about how a simulator said he would gain 10 points if he did X when in fact the person would likely gain more to the tune of 70-90 points from that event.


Yeah, i guess i'm just trying to figure it out, since i dont really have anything left to do but wait and let it age. Its killing me after being so proactive for so long getting it cleaned up and adding new account to see growth

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Anonymous
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Re: Fico Simulators

I’m glad to know to ignore these because they are very disappointing! Very little increases based on scenarios so I’ll just disregard
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