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How much will my score go up if...

How much will my score go up if I have paid everything on time, double, even triple the min. balances for 6 months. How many points approx. will I score go up?

 

Thanks. 

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Re: How much will my score go up if...

Just wondering about an estimate. We're actually going to the mortgage lender's office today to see if we get preapproved. Just wanted to see if I should be worried. lol..thanks though.
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llecs
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Re: How much will my score go up if...

Depends on a number of things like your mix of credit, utilization, and whether or not you will have anything impact you between now and then or will have something impact you less between now and then.

List out all of your CCs before any debt paydown listing the balance and the CL. Then list what you think your balances will be 6 months from now including the CL. Also, what are your two FICO scores?
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Re: How much will my score go up if...

I am wondering about 6 months ago not 6 months from now.

 

Was wondering about a home mortgage loan. Going on husband's credit. His score 6 months ago was around 550.

Balances on 2 credit cards before paydown was around $200 for each. 

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llecs
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Re: How much will my score go up if...

My bad. I thought you were asking for the impact of debt paydown for 6 mo. from now.

If the 6 months already passed, then your DH could pull a new score for EQ, TU or both and he'd see that change.
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Re: How much will my score go up if...

Just wondering about an estimate. We're actually going to the mortgage lender's office today to see if we get preapproved. Just wanted to see if I should be worried. lol..thanks though.
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llecs
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Re: How much will my score go up if...

I'd try pulling a new score. It won't hurt your FICO score or loan chance in any way at all.

The estimate would hinge on exactly what was reporting, balance-wise, 6 months ago, the associated CLs on all cards at that time, and your FICO scores then. All that info then has to be compared to exactly what the CC balances are reporting today with the associated CLs. Absent this info, it impossible to guess. Utilization plays a huge part in your score and it is impossible to tell without the before and after balances with CLs.

As an example, you mentioned a paydown of $200 each. If your CLs for each card were $10,000, then paying it down only $200 of a $6,000 balance will have ZERO impact to your score because you are going from 60% to 58% utilization. Conversely, if each CC had a $500 CL and you had a $250 balance on each before the paydown and $50 balance after, then you are going from 50% to 10% which could result in some modest gains.

Then there's other info to consider too like whether or not you have any new credit within the past year, if anything changed on your reports within the past 6 months like dropped accounts, added accounts, etc. Whether or not something within a baddie changed like dropped lates, change in DOLA, whether or not you have any CC COs, etc.

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