I've almost closed it several times, but it is one of
my oldest open cards, so I left it in the sock drawer.
Not exact matches
First, you'll want to leave your
old credit lines
open to benefit from the lower credit utilization and credit history on the paid - off
cards.
Following the 2009
CARD Act, it became significantly harder for 18 to 21 year olds to open new credit card accou
CARD Act, it became significantly harder for 18 to 21 year
olds to
open new credit
card accou
card accounts.
Who should get one: This is a good option for
older people who have established financial lives and don't expect to
open a credit
card or other loan in the near future.
Open an
old Catholic prayer book and it's more than likely that you'll find it crammed with various prayer -
cards.
Maaaaybe these are just the ramblings of an
old man who's had one too many nips from the nostalgia flask, but there was nothing like cracking
open a pack of wood - paneled 1987 Topps and watching the rookie
cards fall out: Will Clark, Ruben Sierra, Cory Snyder, Barry Larkin, Rafael Palmeiro, Bobby Bonilla, Benito Santiago, Kal Daniels, Andres Galarraga, Kevin Seitzer, Kelly Gruber, Wally Joyner, Danny Tartabull, Pete Incaviglia, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds... my god, it's beautiful.
Jamea Jackson, a 17year -
old Floridian, is the top - ranked American junior on the WTA Tour, at No. 198, and received a wild
card into the main draw of the U.S.
Open (where she was slated to face veteran pro Cara Black of Zimbabwe).
The 23 - year -
old midfielder was forced to miss club's 3 - 1 win over Bournemouth on the
opening day of the season due to suspension, a result of the two yellow
cards he picked up in last term's successful Coppa Italia campaign with the Italian champions.
It's the same
old story as far as Newcastle are concerned, as the Toon suffered 41 significant injuries last season and Davide Santon (hip), Loïc Rémy (muscle strain), Massadio Haïdara (knee) and Jonás Gutiérrez (hamstring) will all be unavailable for selection, whilst Steven Taylor will also miss the game after picking up a straight red
card for using his arm illicitly against Sergio Agüero in their
opening fixture.
• A 19 - year -
old Orland Park man was charged April 8 with felony unlawful possession of a fraudulent identification
card after attempting to
open a checking account at a bank on the 15100 block of LaGrange Road.
In a two - year period, the Percocos transferred their credit
card debt from
old cards with high interest rates to new
cards they
opened with temporary low rates «eight or nine times,» an FBI forensic accountant testified Wednesday.
Whether such an agency successfully matches applicants and
openings using
old - fashioned index
cards or the latest algorithm matters a lot less than whether it actually creates mutually beneficial connections.
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I hate to play the age
card, but for someone in his late thirties, he is far too
old to be playing the sixteen - year -
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opens the movie.
-- Emily Tetherow (played by Michelle Williams) Go West, young ma'am «Oregon Territory, 1845» reads a rough - hewn hand - drawn title
card that
opens Meek's Cutoff (2010), the fourth feature by 52 - year -
old, Miami - born filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (her sixth, Certain Women, hits select North American theaters later this year).
«Oregon Territory, 1845» reads a rough - hewn hand - drawn title
card that
opens Meek's Cutoff (2010), the fourth feature by 52 - year -
old, Miami - born filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (her sixth, Certain Women, hits select North American theaters later this year).
Each chapter in the new memoir
opens with a quote from one of the
cards she wrote to Brianna, who was just 4 years
old when her mother died.
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Those between 18 and 21 years
old can
open a credit
card account in their name if they have proof of individual income, according to rules set by the Credit Card Accountability and Responsibility Act of 2
card account in their name if they have proof of individual income, according to rules set by the Credit
Card Accountability and Responsibility Act of 2
Card Accountability and Responsibility Act of 2009.
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.
To minimize the impact, consider keeping those
old, unused credit
card and store
card accounts
open a bit longer.
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.
First, you'll want to leave your
old credit lines
open to benefit from the lower credit utilization and credit history on the paid - off
cards.
At the time I applied for my last mortgage, I only had 2
open credit
cards (still true), and the
oldest open account was about 1.5 years
old.
Keeping those
old credit
cards open will not lower your credit utilization which accounts for 30 % of your credit score.
You can move over
old balance from other credit
cards to this one and you'll get 0 % introductory APR for 18 months from the time your account is
opened.
Cut up your
old credit
cards but leave the accounts
open.
The length of time you've had credit: Longer is better, so keep
old accounts
open unless there is a compelling reason to close them, such as an annual fee on a
card you no longer use.
I think the one most people don't realize is to keep
old credit
cards open because it helps with credit history.
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.
Only recently (first in May with two
cards from BoA) I left the
cards open after shifting all but a couple of hundred dollars of credit line because I want to preserve the credit history of the
old cards.
Still, it's not a bad idea to keep your
oldest credit
cards open to help maintain your credit history.
I lost my
oldest open line of credit (a Sears
card that
opened in 1977 when I was in college) because I hadn't used it in four years (it was a very high interest
card, but I would have a small purchase on it if I'd have known that was coming).
For example, if your credit report shows an
old paid - off student loan or other account no longer active along with a new credit
card opened less than six months ago, together they can generate a credit score for you as of the moment the new
card appears on your credit report.
Since your credit report may affect your mortgage rates, credit
card approvals, credit scores, and apartment requests, you should be on the lookout for potential inconsistencies, such as accounts that you didn't
open, addresses of employers that you didn't work for, or information that should no longer be on your credit report, such as an over 10 - year
old bankruptcy.
Because we have more than two dozen
open credit accounts, many with high limits, I finally shut down a couple
old Chase
cards we hadn't used in eons... with no perceptible impact on my scores.
If your entire credit history consists of only two credit
cards, one that's 15 - years -
old and another that's five - years -
old, the average age of your
open accounts is 10.
While it might be tempting to close down your
old cards, it's a smarter idea to keep them
open (with a zero balance) provided they don't charge an annual fee.
And make sure to keep my
oldest cards open to boost the average age of all my accounts.
Even better, if you have an
older credit
card and it does not have an annual fee, you should consider keeping it
open to demonstrate a longer credit history.
Rather than closing all your
old cards, I recommend keeping the
oldest card open and maintaining some regular activity on it.
Applicants who are younger than 21 years of age will need to have a co-signer (who is
older than 21) when
opening a credit
card account.
The
open date on the authorized user
card, as with all other accounts on your credit report, will be used in scoring calculations that measure how long you've been using credit (15 percent of your score), such as the average age of your accounts and the ages of your newest and
oldest accounts — with
older always being better.
If you have
old credit
card accounts that you want to stop using, just cut up the
cards or keep them in a drawer, but keep the accounts
open.
Who should get one: This is a good option for
older people who have established financial lives and don't expect to
open a credit
card or other loan in the near future.
I'm not saying you should keep
old cards open indefinitely, especially if they have an annual fee and you don't use any of their perks.
The strategy: Avoid
opening new accounts unless necessary, and keep your
oldest credit
cards active (assuming you pay any new charges in full).
If you can clean up a credit
card that was
opened many years ago and establish a new history of no late payments, the age of the account can help restore your credit as the
old late payment history falls off over time.
Then continue closing accounts in this way until left with 10
cards having some of the highest limits and
oldest open dates.
@Kathy, To answer your question, the answer is YES, keep your
old credit
card account
open — it will be best to preserve your credit score.