Regular, timely payments will be regarded favorably by potential creditors
while multiple late payments could negatively affect your credit score.
Even if the credit card balance is low, if a person has
paid multiple late payments on a consistent basis, it is unlikely that their credit score will be any higher than five or six hundred.
Anything below the 550 mark is typically considered bad credit, and the fastest way to end up here is to rack up
multiple late payments and max out your credit cards.
However,
multiple late payments and / or late payments of 90 days or more will hurt your credit.
Whether from defaulted accounts,
multiple late payments, maxed out credit cards, or a bankruptcy discharge — or some combination of them all — when a credit score drops below 580, it is in the «poor» credit range.