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- From: sbp@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (Sue Price)
- Subject: Re: How to improve credit ratings ?
- Organization: AT&T
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:46:40 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.174640.24470@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
- References: <1993Jan18.190756.13874@informix.com> <1jf5bgINNjbk@mojo.eng.umd.edu> <C12srC.JtC@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- In article <C12srC.JtC@news2.cis.umn.edu> konstan@saturn.cs.umn.edu (Joe Konstan) writes:
- >In response to a question on whether to build a credit rating by paying in
- >full vs. carrying a balance, georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark) writes:
- >|> Paying your monthly balance in full will distinguish you as being someone
- >|> who has learned to manage cash. In the world of credit, that gets noticed.
- >
- >I agree with the recommendation, though not the reason. And, I'd like to add
- >a caveat. You should pay in full because it is cheaper for you (no interest
- >charges). The REASON is that credit reports do not show whether you carry a
- >balance. They only show whether you paid each month and in some cases what
- >your high balance (or credit limit) is (depending on the issuer). For these
- >purposes, nobody can tell whether you carry a balance, so why pay to? Of
- >course, nobody can tell whether you pay in full monthly either, so you don't
- >get credit for that.
-
- When I applied for a mortgage, the loan application asked me how much I
- charge to my credit card each month. They did not ask what my balance is,
- which I thought was more significant in my case because I pay in full,
- and I noted that on the application. Interesting that they had no way
- to know whether I was telling the truth. I had assumed that anything
- they asked me, they would be able to verify.
-
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- Sue Price
- sbp@hound.att.com
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