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My credit score is under 600. I owe about $1,000 on my Best Buy card. I was recently "threatened" because for two months my payments were late. I now have the money to pay off the entire bill with no problems in one lump sum. Will that raise my credit score, or would it help my credit score more if I make monthly payments of $100 each ON TIME until the bill is paid off. I plan on closing this account as soon as it's paid off. Is that wise?
Closing it will lower your score, it lowers your available credit, there fore it lowers your score.
Hoff, do not close the card. Good natured is correct it will actually lower your score. Any card that can show a long credit history and a good one can only help your score. A couple late payments should not effect your score very much but closing it would. You cna pay it all off at anytime. Making monthly payment or jsut paying at one clip is not what really builds your credit...its the lenghth. I would pay it off and then put the card up if you do not want to lower your score. Just remmeber sometimes when a card is inactive for a period of time the lender will actually close the card themselves. Making a samll purchase here and there and paying it off would help avoid this and build you credit even more.
If you make monthly payments of $100 each, your score will increase much more than if you make the entire payment at a time. This is because if you make monthly payments, your credit history will improve, but if you make one time payment, your "amounts owed" factor would improve. Now credit history contributes 35% in your credit score while amounts owed contributes 30% in your score. So credit history will dominate the "amounts owed" factor and so your score will improve if you make monthly payments.
You should never close an old credit card account if it has a good credit history because closing the account will remove the credit history from your report and your credit score will get lowered. Even if you do not wish to use the card, keep it open till you build up a good credit history on a new card.
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Hi,
If you are not able to pay the rent now itself, you can talk to your landlord, and make him understand the problem. If you don't pay the debt, the landlord may send this to a collection agency. This may in turn get reported to the bureaus. Discuss your problem with the landlord, mention that you have always made regular payments.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Aaron
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