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Old Oct 1, 2008 | 07:42 PM
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What letters are these :squint:
Properly formatted letters you write to the 3 major credit bureaus. The language is very specific.
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Old Oct 1, 2008 | 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Chefboiali
Properly formatted letters you write to the 3 major credit bureaus. The language is very specific.
in short, take this shit off my credit report!!!
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Old Oct 1, 2008 | 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by dj02
in short, take this shit off my credit report!!!
You've written one :chuckles:

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Old Oct 1, 2008 | 08:43 PM
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my nickname is minimum payment h:




looks like lenders see me as low risk tho wewt.
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Old Oct 1, 2008 | 09:33 PM
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fuck that you gotta pay to find out what your credit score is
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Old Oct 2, 2008 | 02:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Omie
fuck that you gotta pay to find out what your credit score is
Are you sure you about that? I just received my credit score on the Equifax site and I wasn't charged anything. h:

It looks like my current FICO score is a 681. I have too much debt and not a very long credit history. I avoided credit cards when I was a bit younger because I didn't want to fall into the debt trap but now I wish I had gotten started earlier establishing good credit. I'm going to work really hard in the next year to pay down my credit card debt so hopefully I can get my score up. :hs:
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Old Oct 2, 2008 | 04:06 AM
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I was at a 730 four months ago, about two weeks after I completed my debt management program. Since that time I have been using a CC that is paid down every month and added the statement 'successfully completed a debt management program' to my credit report. I would expect to be at a 750 by this point. My big negative at this point is $85k in student loans
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Old Oct 2, 2008 | 05:41 AM
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i have good credit. girlfriend has better credit than i do.

i have a $500 limit credit card. have about $200 on it now, gonna owe ~$6000 when i get out of school in two months..

i'm happy.

Originally Posted by Omie
fuck that you gotta pay to find out what your credit score is
i applied for a job at verizon and then a laptop got stolen that could have had my information on it, so they gave me a year of credit monitoring for free
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Old Oct 2, 2008 | 05:45 AM
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Originally Posted by red94teg
Are you sure you about that? I just received my credit score on the Equifax site and I wasn't charged anything. h:

It looks like my current FICO score is a 681. I have too much debt and not a very long credit history. I avoided credit cards when I was a bit younger because I didn't want to fall into the debt trap but now I wish I had gotten started earlier establishing good credit. I'm going to work really hard in the next year to pay down my credit card debt so hopefully I can get my score up. :hs:
I must be missing something on the site.
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Old Oct 2, 2008 | 05:53 AM
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Originally Posted by DakarM
yet.
likewise, i have several cards that i haven't used in years. i canceled at least 2 or 3 of them in the past year but none have ever been canceled on me due to inactivity. one of them gave me a hard time before they finally agreed to close it, and i hadn't used that one in at least 2 years.

i don't pay much attention to the rules that are out there for good credit.

i never carry a balance. i understand this is not possible for everyone.

i try not to have too many cards open. for example, if i open a new credit line (i.e sonycard for $150 credit), i close another account that i haven't used in a long time.

and i have just one main card that i use for pretty much everything. i don't spread my purchases across accounts unless i accidentally pull out my debit card.

i don't know how inline this is with the "rules", but the last time my credit score was pulled (for the mortgage), my score was > 800.

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