Is your Credit Score Too High ?
By Trevor Weir | October 24, 2008
At some time in your life you will walk into a bank and apply for a loan or mortgage of some kind. If you live in the western world, the bank will invariably check a central credit agency in order to validate your ability to make payments on the loan that you are applying for. Your banker will tell you to relax, this is painless, as he/she reviews your credit score from the central agency. This will be the time when that critical purchase of a home or new car will cause you to silently say, Darn, I wish I knew how to increaase my credit score. We have all been there and done that - some of us more times than we can count.
So, the question is, Can the credit card score be improved and most people would answer simply pay your bills on time and there should be nothing to worry about. Everyone it seems has an opinion on this. Some said that constantly asking the credit agency to respond to specified issues in your report within a period of time specified by law could or might result in the credit agency making a mistake and the issue in question being cleared - largely based on a technicality. Enough people mentioned this tactic, so it appears that as unorthodox as this method may seem, there may be some validity in some jurisdictions.
As mentioned above, most people simply answered "pay your bills on time and your credit rating will be excellent". We counter that paying your bills on time is fact expected and that this can give you an average credit rating of 5-700. But is this "pay your bills" thought really true? We are going to name this as myth number 1 and look more closely at it here. Loan institutions absolutely adore customers whom pay off their bills on time every month? We calculate stupendous bank profits in that model, right? The truth is, loan institutions and other lenders including the mafia are in absolute love with people who maintain a nice healthy balance that they can get charged interest on.
Ok, Question number 2. Big borrowers who are simply big borrowers are simply loved by the banks. C'mon is this true ? If this were the case, people who couldn't repay loans would get huge amounts of credit and constantly end up in repayment problems. Anyway, if I am wrong on this one, I would be the second in the line chasing you to the nearest bank for a mega loan. I have had my eye on some New York Prime Property for a while now. But this isn't true is it? So perhaps this is not the answer either.
Perhaps the answer lies somewhere in between. Loan institutions love clients who pay something on their bills each month ( preferably just the interest and a little more ) and whom appear to have the ongoing ability to manage/to pay down on the debt load. I.e. Fifty thousand in available personal credit, 22,000 used already.
The keyword phrase "ongoing ability to pay " is why some older retired persons with otherwise good credit may sometimes have difficulty refinancing longer term loans. Existing verifiable income is one of the underlying basis for credit that requires repayment. I think pension checks are income but for some reason lenders don't rate those quite so highly.
Under this scenario, best Candidates are not just those without payment defaults, such a person who can still get to 650 on the credit score, but those few lucky individuals who can pop an 800 or more. So the key issue for those looking to increase their credit scores from perhaps a low 600 to a high 800 or 900 depends more on other factors.
That something else is the debt ratio. The key issue for getting credit card ratings above 6-700 is the debt/credit ratio.
Come to the site, view the video - learn how you can quickly change your score quite positively. It can be done in an extremely short period of time, come watch.
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