This category looks at revolving credit accounts to determine how much of
your total available credit line you are utilizing.
Since you don't usually want to close a credit card account (it hurts your score marginally and lowers
your total available credit line), it's important to consider the long - term ramifications of a credit card, too.
Once you've paid your first monthly installment of $ 582.19 ($ 500 principal + $ 82.19 in interest),
your total available credit line will become $ 15,500.
Not exact matches
How each company calculates it remains a trade secret, but most consider your payment history,
available lines of
credit, the types of
credit you have,
credit inquiries you've made and the years you've had ongoing
credit as part of the
total number.
Although it increases your
total available credit, opening several new
lines of
credit in a short period of time can actually hurt your score.
Customers can transfer any amount, up to their
credit available for transfers, which may be less than their
total credit line.
Third, any
credit card that is over 50 % of the
available credit line should be paid down to under half of your
total credit line.
Also considered is the
total amount of
credit you have
available (Try to keep your
credit cards balances at less than 50 % of your
total credit line).
If you have a $ 10,000
credit line and carry an $ 8,000 balance, you're using 80 percent of your
total available credit.
You would be able to pay off your current loan and have up to about $ 9,000
available to you at closing or any time in the first 12 months and then another $ 26,281 after 12 months for a
total line of
credit of about $ 35,281.
Closing an account can certainly affect your score, by reducing your
total available credit, thus making your ratio of used
credit to
credit line worse.
A scoring calculation as applied to
credit scores where outstanding debt is compared to
total potential debt based on
credit lines available.
One of the key factors that cause
credit scores to move up or down is how much debt you owe on revolving accounts (such as
credit cards and
lines of
credit) compared to your
total available credit limits.
your
available balances or amount of
available lines of
credit compared to the amount you are actually using ie 4
credit cards with
total available credit to you is $ 40,000 but in any one given month you use $ 3,000 and pay it off or pay it down.
Since only a portion of your
total credit line is
available for bank cash advances, it's important to keep track of the remaining amount that you can use for bank cash advances.
It's a good rule of thumb to try to keep your revolving
credit utilization (
credit cards,
lines of
credit, etc.) to around 30 percent of the
total revolving
credit available to you.
Your cash
credit line (or limit) is the
total amount of
credit you have
available for cash advances on your
credit card.
After examining all your sources of income and reviewing your documents, some lenders use your
total available credit to determine your
credit eligibility when considering additional loans or
lines of
credit.
How each company calculates it remains a trade secret, but most consider your payment history,
available lines of
credit, the types of
credit you have,
credit inquiries you've made and the years you've had ongoing
credit as part of the
total number.
In fact, having another
line of
credit open will add to your
total available credit and may improve your
credit score.
The amount of money that can be made will depend on the
total line of
credit available.
While your utilization will indeed drop as your
total available credit rises, that new
credit line will require what's known as a «hard pull,» or
credit review.
Third, any
credit card that is over fifty percent of the
available credit line should be paid down to under half of your
total credit line.
As far as DTI and FICO — FICO looks at your
total available credit to
credit utilized (the aggregate balance and percentage advanced on all of your revolving
lines including HELOCs,
credit cards, and overdraft protection
lines — if they are reported).
Besides recent applications for
credit, your score will also vary from month to month, or even day to day, because of fluctuations in factors like your overall
credit utilization (the amount you borrow in relation to your
total available credit) and how much you utilize each of your
lines of
credit.
So, if you have one card with a $ 10,000
credit line with a $ 5,000 balance and another card with a $ 1,000
credit line and a $ 200 balance, your
total credit utilization ratio across both cards is 47 percent ($ 5,200 owed divided by
total $ 11,000 in
available credit).
Either way, enough
available credit so you don't get a bill representing more than 19 % of the
total credit lines.
The
total amount of outstanding transfer requests can not
total more than your
available line of
credit.
This leaves your
credit line intact, which gives you more
total available credit to contrast what you owe against.
For example, if you have $ 50,000 in
total credit lines available, and you owe $ 25,000, your
credit utilization ratio is 50 % ($ 25,000 divided by $ 50,000) because you are using half of all the
credit you have
available.
The advantage of a
line of
credit is that you only pay interest on the funds you withdraw, not the
total amount that is
available to you.
Your cash
credit line (or limit) is the
total amount of
credit you have
available for cash advances on your
credit card.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that Citi counts the
credit lines of recently - closed accounts for 3 - 6 months against your
total available credit.