Posted on Monday, 12th July 2010 by Lucy Hales
Just a slight one, but still a change. My credit score decreased by 20 points, from 866 to 846, likely because of the HELOC sitting very close to maxed out for a few months. Can think of nothing else. That extremely high utilization rate of almost 98% was compensated by otherwise very solid credit history. Interesting thing was that I received probably 6 or 7 credit card offers in May and June. Each of such offers certainly carried a soft inquiry against my credit report, but as you well aware of, soft inquiry does no harm. Read about inquiries, and credit report myths for further clarification.
I applied for all of them and received 4 new credit cards while 2 issuers denied my requests. That makes 6 fresh hard inquiries within 3 weeks. We shall see what my credit score change will be in September. See previously written Bad credit score estimator and Increase credit score 100 points.
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