Sentences with phrase «keep the card open since»

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Also, keep your oldest credit card open since the length of your opened accounts is an important part of building a foundation for your credit score.

Your old credit card company may be less apt to negotiate, since you're moving your debt elsewhere, but if you intend to keep your account open and have a good history with the company, you may be successful in obtaining a lower fee.

3) Although we haven't paid any interest on our credit cards since we became debt free in 2006, we've kept one of our credit card accounts open and occasionally purchase an item with it (paying it off within a few days).

Since the Citi Diamond Preferred card carries no annual fee, there is no cost to keeping it open.

If the card you're downgrading is one of your oldest credit cards, best to keep it open and not close it, since average age of accounts is an important part of your credit score

Since FICO says a good score is more dependent on always paying bills on time, keeping credit card balances low and opening new loan accounts only when necessary, there is little reason for most borrowers to actively seek out a mix of credit.

Since the Citi Diamond Preferred card carries no annual fee, there is no cost to keeping it open.

Since this card has no annual fee, you can keep your Membership Rewards points active forever simply by keeping this card open.

Also, keep your oldest credit card open since the length of your opened accounts is an important part of building a foundation for your credit score.

These dates will be important so that you can keep track of when you'll need to meet your minimum spend and also for later reference when you're trying to count how long it's been since you've opened up a card.

MBNA / Bank of America University of Pittsburgh No Annual Fee Card: Keep since I've had the account open for almost 10 years.

That's part of the reason I keep both the personal and business versions of the Starwood Preferred Guest Amex in my wallet since each of them gets me 2 stays or 5 nights closer to requalifying for elite status each year, and if you've been considering them, from now until September 3, 2013, the sign - up bonus has been raised to 30,000 points when you spend $ 5,000 within 6 months of account opening — which is 20 % higher than the usual bonus on this card.

Will be looking forward, since I can't get squared away with some of the stuff under point # 3: If we hit the $ 10K spend before the Citi - to - Amex changeover date, but before the weekend hotel certificate has shown up in our Hilton account, do we have to keep the card open (which in my case means paying $ 95 for a card I don't especially want and foregoing any future bonus should it turn out that I decide I want it).

I have a Citi AAdvantage card that I never use, but I keep it open for the benefits since DFW is an AA hub and we fly them often.

But when you're deciding whether you want to keep a card open, the bonus does not matter since you will have already earned it.