Not exact matches
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Similarly, closing your oldest credit
account may also reduce your score a bit, both because your
average account age will drop and your credit utilization will also
go up, unless you pay off a chunk of your debt!
If you have an older credit card that doesn't charge an annual fee,
go ahead and keep it open to boost the
average age of your
accounts.
If you close a very old
account and leave only new
accounts open, the
average age of your credit file could
go down.
In such a case, your best option is simply to wait; in time, the
average age of your credit card
accounts will
go up and you will again be eligible to apply for more cards.
Rosenberg's excellent credit habits — always pay balances on time and in full, check his report for errors,
go on «credit fasts» before a major credit application — plus the increase in the
average age of his
accounts have pushed his score to 820.
Two, depending on the
age of your other
accounts, your
average file
age could
go down when you close an
account.
If you have had that card for 12 years, close it when moving abroad for three years, then come home and have to open a new
account, your
average account age just
went from 12 to zero.
Once approved, the
average age of your
accounts is
going to take a hit from a newly opened card.
So if you want to cancel the business card before an annual fee hits and you can't get a retention offer, there won't be much of an impact on your credit score since your utilization will
go unaffected as will your
average age of
accounts.
A great thing about these business credit cards is that there's no pressure to keep them open because you're not
going to be affecting your
average age of
accounts.