Need to increase my credit score from 695 to 730 for mortgage refinancing. What would help more: a) partially repaying max out 0% APR cards or b) repaying a 3% APR personal loan? Or would the impact be the same? Any other better ideas? Thanks!

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Repay but do not close the credit cards, and prepay all your Credit cards (1-2 days before the close date)

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I got my credit up to 780 from 650 (new credit) by:
-Making 2 payments to each open account a month (you can still make the same payment amount, but making 2 different payments helps)
-Having someone with an older credit card add me as an authorized user, which made a huuuuge impact, as it made the age of my credit history go from 2 years to 5
-Got my total credit utilization down below 20%

I still carry a credit balance on a few accounts and have student loans, but I’m paying them down as much as I can and the consistency and strategic payments paid off!

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Anecdote: 22y/o. No loans nor do I carry a balance. Credit score of ~770. I have ~70k line of credit across my credit cards. I had one card with a $5000 limit where I spent 2500, resulting in a 50% utilization on that card. My score tanked by 65 points well before the payment was due because my card provider reported it early. Now maybe Credit Karmas modeling is too sensitive to utilization but what it taught me is that I would have been better off spending that $2500 across all of my cards. Not like I care about my score right now but it was an experience nonetheless. CreditShifu on Youtube has a video with an almost exact similar situation.

So maybe unmaxing out your cards would be somewhat impactful to start. Do check your credit score from other sources as well.

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credit cards have a much higher weighting so would focus more on them. Also its based on the % you owe based your line of credit when you combine all your credit cards. Nerdwallet and Credit Sesame are pretty good about telling you how to do that.
Also if you are good at paying your bills on time you might try the Experian Boost too.

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I think I read somewhere credit card balance had higher impact

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Does anyone know if your score can jump that much if OP chose to pay off (a) all at one for the maxed out card debt amount? I am curious

I used to be around 740, but then I got some extra low APR leverage when refinancing my place six months ago (to hit 20%, get rid off PMI, and get a better rate). Plus I also got $10K in student loans (part time masters) as loan interest was pretty low as well. Trying to bring it up again!

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