Begin by paying the minimum payment
on all of the credit cards on your list, with the exception of the card with the lowest balance (# 4 — Discover in the example above).
I've recently been approached by an organization claiming they can reduce the interest rates
on ALL of my credit cards with rates over 10.0 %, to a temporary promational rate for 6 - 12 months at 0 %, then a lifetime fixed rate of 3.99 to 6.99 %.
This would make a lender leery of giving you a loan or mortgage because the question is would you be able to make the loan or mortgage payments if you owed the full
amount on all of your credit cards?
To qualify for an award, you will have to rake in tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of miles and if you spread yourself out too thin, you will never be able to accumulate enough
miles on any of your credit cards to redeem for anything worthwhile.
To calculate your revolving utilization percentage, all you need to do is add up all of your credit
limits on each of your credit card accounts and then do the same for all of the balances on each card.
Pay the minimum
on all of your credit card balances except the card with the highest interest rate.
I have had people contact me asking for me to help them with their credit report so they can buy a home and they are behind literally all of their bills (reporting on their credit report) and also maxed out
on all of their credit cards.