Building a credit history and demonstrating an ability to
manage different types of debt — such as credit cards, car loans and mortgages — both take time.
This tells the credit bureaus that you're capable of
managing different types of debt.
Not exact matches
Description: An important aspect
of personal finance is the way in which individuals and households
manage their
debt, how much it costs and the
different types of credit they can or can not access.
As an indicator
of your creditworthiness how much you owe and how it's broken up across the
different types of loans acts as a signal about your capacity to
manage your existing
debt.
A credit history containing
different types of credit shows lenders you have experience handling a range
of debt types, and therefore may present lower credit risk if you have
managed the credit responsibly by paying on time.
A mixture
of different types of accounts shows that you're able to
manage multiple
debt, which adds positive points to your credit score.
Manage your accounts: The other 20 percent
of your score measures how many
different types of credit — credit cards, auto loans, student
debt, mortgages — you have.