Similarly, if an existing creditor makes an inquiry on your account in order to review your account with them, such inquiry will not be
treated as hard inquiry.
Not exact matches
For this reason, they
treat hard inquiries for the same type of transaction
as a single transaction if the space between the
inquiries are very short.
Fair Isaac Corporation (or FICO) calls this «rate shopping,» and allows a 45 - day window where the numerous
hard inquiries are
treated as just one.