• eltrain123@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    2 of the factors are debt to income ratio and how many accounts of different types are open. If you pay off 99% of a car and refinance 100$ loan for 84 months… does that keep your score up?

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      11 months ago

      So the reason this kinda idiocy happens is when the line of credit is closed, it actually decreases the average age of your credit accounts- which decreases your score.

      That’s why people who pay off student loans have their scores drop sometimes, especially if they’ve avoided any other lines of credit.

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        11 months ago

        This. Average age of active credit accounts went down thus drop. Same thing happened to me