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Monthly Utilization

When my new cards all report, my total CL is going to go from $4K to $29.5K.  While I know that utl does not have a memory, the payment dates on my cards easily allows me to only have one card report monthly. 

 

The earliest reporting card has a CL of $3500.  If I leave a balance of 2% on this card, will the total UTL figure be based on that particular card's CL or will it rediculously round up to 1% based on my total CL?  If I try and hit 2% based on my total CL, that would be 17% utilization on that card....don't want to take a hit at 17%.

 

My thinking is that is woud be easy to manipulate that early reporting card and just PIF before the reporting dates on the rest of my cards.

 

What do ya think/know??

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Anonymous
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Re: Monthly Utilization

Your total utilization will be based on the total of all your cards balances vs CL.  However, you only use one card to report the 9% or below.

 

So, yes, it would round up to 1%.

 

 

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