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I've been building and gardening my credit for the last year and a half or so and things are going pretty well. Although I haven't bought my FICO score yet I've got my reports and been watching my FACO's.
FACO's:
Credit Karma: 707
Credit Sesame: 703
Started with a Orchard card with a $500 almost two years ago and gardened it. Then 6 weeks or so ago I was approved for a Chase Freedom Rewards at $1000 CL and PayPal's "Bill Me Later" for $800ish CL (so far but it changes as you spend) and have been gardening these as well. Neither of the new accounts have reported yet. Only the hard pulls. So my current scores don't reflect the new accounts or utilization which was 67% for the only card I had at the time as far as the FACO's report. No other loans.
Credit Karmas's "Credit Simulator" tellsme that when these accounts report my FAKO scores will drop into the 680's. **bleep**? It's going to lower my utilization big time and more then tripple my available credit and add 2 accounts that are paid as agreed for 60 days or so.
Should I beleive Credit Karma? Is my score actually going to drop? Why?
Thanks.
When your AAoA decreases, you may see a drop - although I can't say how severe it will be... I know I'm braced for a big drop when my AAoA goes from 5 years to about 2.5 over the course of the year (lots of new accounts reporting and a handful of bad ones falling off).
The new cards should decrease your Utilization though which is a good thing and may offset some of the AAoA damage. (I'm not sure if BML reports though, I didn't think it did.)
As for Credit Karma's simulator, all I can say there is that when I move the slider for "Have an on-time credit history" to anywhere between 3 and 24 months - it shows a score decrease... So I wouldn't take it very seriously lol