Increase Your Credit Score In 48 Hours
February 3, 2010 by Trevor Weir
Filed under Mortgage
Suppose we told you that there was a definitive and easy way to increase your credit score? Many college kids answered that the way to increase your credit score was to simply pay off all your bills in a timely fashion. Home owners mentioned that to do so was to pay the mortgage on time and to work on removing bad references from the credit records.
It seemed that everyone claimed to have heard a trick or two. Others said that constantly querying the credit bureau and challenging them to respond to you within 30 days or as mandated by law would result in the credit agency messing up and the matter being cleared based on a technicality. Truthfully, enough people mentioned the latter, that it appears that this somewhat unorthodox method may have some validity in a few jurisdictions.
Invariably however, what appears to be missing from nearly all the responses was an understanding of not of how credit works because most of us can figure that one out, but the understanding of the thinking/reasoning behind higher credit scores and what loan institutions are really looking for. So, myth number 1. Loan institutions love people who pay off their bills on time every month. Really? If this were the case, how would a loan institution make any money? ha ha Loan institutions love people who maintain a balance that they can get charged interest on. And that\’s the truth.
Ok, myth-ism number 2. Banks and Loan Sharks love people who borrow as much as possible. Really? If this were the case, people who couldn\’t repay loans would get huge amounts of credit and constantly end up in repayment problems. Do I hear echoes of a well known mortgage problem in here? So perhaps this isn\’t 100% of the answer either.
Let\’s cut to the chase. Banks and your, ahem, local mafia lender ( ohh are these two interchangeable ? ) love clients who pay more than the interest each month but not enough to seriously subtract from the actual principal amount. These are cherished suckers and enough of these on a banks balance sheets makes for a very healthy bank. These customers also have the ongoing income to keep their total loan amounts very much under the total allowed credit range. It is this loan to credit that more strongly influences whether a credit rating will be closer to 670 or 800. Lets look at an example, 35,000 in credit and 14,000 already used.
The key phrase here being \”ongoing ability \” and \”debt ratio\”. Ongoing ability is why some older retired persons with otherwise good credit may sometimes have difficulty refinancing longer term loans. They are looked at as not having jobs per se and therefore while their credit may be good the ongoing ability (income) aspect might be perceived as being weak.
So the key issue for those looking to increase their credit scores from perhaps a low 600 to a high 800 depends more on the factor of debt ratio.Primary amongst those additional factors is as mentioned, the DEBT RATIO. If you want to have a credit score above 800 then the credit agencies must think you have a very favorable debt ratio.
That something else is the debt ratio. The key issue for getting credit card ratings above 6-700 is the debt/credit ratio.
The absolute best candidate is someone with a credit to debt ratio which is not only low, meaning they have room to increase it, but someone who also has shown the long term ability to handle an ongoing balance – note that means not necessarily paying it off every month. Watch the video and learn not only what the bank wants to see, but how you can in the next few days influence positively your credit score. Once you understand the math, you are golden.
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