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In may 2020, experiences a 20+ fico score drop due to paying off my car loan.
I want to apply for a mortgage and FAST.
the reason for the score drop was due to lack of a credit mix so in my head...I'm thinking to mix things up.
Is this a dumb rationale? I need a new car anyways.
I'm not sure if getting the car will help or hurt my mortgage score.
I would assume getting a car loan would hurt you in getting a mortgage as it raises your debt to income ratio. If I were you, I'd buy the house first then the car. But would suggest contacting a loan officer.
Thank you!
Thank you so much! This is the exact answer I was looking for. I will continue with azeo and hope this helps me out. My median mortgage score right now is 712 but my goal was to bulk it up to 730 before applying.
Yes, I agree, wait on the car. Did your lender mention a different rate between 712 and 730? I've heard of 760 getting the best score.
@775orbust OK some great advice here, but we’ve got a faulty premise that we need to explore.
First, when you paid off the loan, the 20 points you lost, I guarantee it was on version 8+, not the mortgage scores, right? Consequently your proposed action of replacing it, even if you could, could only hope to replace points to version 8, not to the mortgage scores. So all this is irrelevant to a mortgage anyway, because they don’t use version 8. SSLs, all those strategies are for version 8, not mortgages.
One other clarification. This has absolutely nothing to do with mix. As long as you have a closed loan on your record, which you do, you have your mix points.
Version 8 gives you bonus points for having a installment loan paid down to a certain threshold, and then it gives you even more points when you get to the lesser threshold. But, once you pay it off and close it, you lose those bonus points that you had been given when you had previously paid it down and earned those bonus points. That’s what happened when you paid off your loan.
In sum, paying off that loan didn’t hurt your mortgage scores. Go find out what your true fico mortgage scores are upon practicing AZEO and give us your profile specifics and we’ll see where you’re at.
As @Anonymous and @RadioRob said, taking on new debt in the run up to a mortgage is the absolute worst thing that you can do. Good thing you came here and sought advice! Good on you!
You're right! My 8 score was the drop, not my mortgage score! Thank you for that clarification.
I was just reading through boards here about getting the mortgage score to 730.
Heres a little more details on my profile.
I have 3 cc's.
I plan on paying the pay pal and discover off next Friday. I'm trying to avoid pulling from my savings to pay.
Discover
539/5500
Capital One
339/3500
Pay Pal
375/3500
Great Lakes
Owe $14669
I'm hoping paying the two off help me get a bit of an increase.