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Once again. Wait it out. Do not close them. FICO doesnt care who the name is or the credit limit. The consumer does. Your have to build slowly. May not be what you want right now. But those cards are doing more for you than you know. Keep what you got. Let them grow for a year. Then start looking around. It isnt going to happen right now. Once at 700. Then peek around. You keep HP'ing and accepting. You stay in the 600's never to see 700's. Sit back relax and use what you got for now. Want a witness? @IamWesty12 can verify.
@FireMedic1 @user365735 honestly, you need to just let time and patience be your guide rn. Like stated previously, I opened my secured Discover CC with $200 in May 2021 and that was all I could muster up to send at that moment. At first I wasn't going to bother, because I was focusing on the credit limit I would have self imposed on myself. But for whatever reason I am grateful I listened to my more rational self and sent in the $200. It isn't about the name on the credit card (except my name, lol) nor is it about the credit limit on the card. It is about starting and nurturing a healthly relationship with a great credit card. By December 2021 that $200 had graduated to an unsecured $1K credit card and on top of that I had my original $200 refunded in like 3 days. Today they have continued to increase my CL and after the first 12 months I also received their famous cash match for 1 year perk! I am not the most credit or saavy consumer, but I credit this relationship w/ Discover to how I just got approved for a NFCU platinum $20K credit card last month. Of course I was a member first and have both checking and savings with them including a portion of my biweekly pay as direct deposit. But honestly, my original Discover secured card coupled with time and patience, is what I believe are why I sit over 700 on my scores. It sucks, I get it, but you are in a bind rn. You filed BK and this is what is needed now. I am typically not this blatant but truly you need to just sit back, chill and relax. The only next step that is going to realistically help you rn is TIME. If you keep opening up new cards you are going to continue to reset your ages and all the other algorythmns and how they work. I also had a SELF help loan and while it wasn't the most popular to do, I didn't realize that until after I joined myfico. But it did help establish a installment loan at that time for me. But I didn't have a bankruptcy on my credit reports, lest alone recently. I hated when folks like @FireMedic1 told me that time was my friend back then but he was and is 100% correct. Two years ago if someone had told me I would have a NFCU account or a starting $20K credit card w/ them I would have laughed all around. There ya go, my more then 0.2 cents worth
@user365735 in regards to Sable not accepting any more applications, that is a bummer. It's not the best card out there, but it's not worse for rebuilding either. Being a small Fintech company, I wonder it they hit their marker cap.
My first recommendation for a good secured rewards card would always be BofA, but since that is out of the picture, I would go with my 2nd choice recommendation, TD. I started out with both BofA CCR secured and TD Cash secured in March of 2021, and both graduated before the end of that year.
@user365735 sorry to be the bearer of bad news but I don't believe that open sky will ever become an unsecured card, nor will they ever give CLI's. I know this as I too opened an open sky cc bc at the time it was what I needed to get a cc reporting and it was not a hard pull. I still have the card, to which I have my daughters monthly netflix charge then I auto pay it off soon after. Nothing more, nothing less. I do this to keep the monthly positive reporting to go on but now that I have recently gotten some prime big guys, before my AF pops up I am going to close it out. It was what my credit needed at that time but we all have to start somewhere and at the time I was grateful to start reporting a positive TL. Hope this helps! Just remember you are going in the right direction. You don't have to be desperate and just take any card just for the sake of it.
US Bank has three secured options. The Cash+ card lets you pick two 5% categories and one 2% category each quarter. But if the other secured cards that do hard pulls are rejecting you at this point, US Bank probably will, too.
Another option is First Progress. They have three secured cards and they don't do hard pulls. They have annual fees that range from $29 to $49 depending on which card you pick. The lower the annual fee, the higher the APR you pay. All card APR rates are high these days, but First Progress rates aren't crazy high like some other subprime options. They are a subprime card, but they aren't predatory like First Premier. You used to have to pay them using your bank's bill pay system, and the bank had to send them checks because electronic payments weren't an option, so you had to make sure you paid early to give snail mail some lead time. But I think now you can set up ACH payments from First Progress' site, and if you use your bank's bill pay system electronic payments are now an option. They're not rewards cards, and they'll never graduate, but there's no monthly fee or set up fee or any of that crap. Just a reasonable annual fee. I closed mine after Discover approved me for their secured card and I got my security deposit back from First Progress in two - three weeks. In the fine print of the card agreement there's a section that says if you want your deposit expedited you have to write to them using snail mail to request it. Otherwise it will take months to get your deposit back.
@user365735 - you got great advice here from @FireMedic1 . You're not alone, me included when we get discharged CH7 or CH13 the credit chains have been removed and we're anxious to get back credit cards. Unfortunately and for good reasons, secured and subprime credit cards with low toy limits and high interest rates are the only options and exist because we're consumers of their products during a specific time which we know it as the "Rebuild" phase of our credit journey. Keep in mind, you are not forever expected to stay with these cards and the ideal goal to reach here is getting better cards and retiring your subprime cards with time.
Did you check Discovers pre-qualify? You can check to see if you qualify with Disc with out a hard pull. If you only qualify with the secured it will show that card. $200 down. Unsecures later. Will minimumly unsecured to your secured amount possibly more. So the more you deposit to it the higher the amount your CL will be once unsecured. Max amount you can secure with is $2500.
I'm looking for a secured card that has good Cashback, specifically on dining and fuel. So far I've found discover and boa. Any other options? Will they let me in as secured if I burned them in chapter 7?
@KangiCosmos, Discover is a fickle beast; many are able to land a Discover card, secured or otherwise, within the first six months following a bankruptcy discharge, others, myself included, get zero love. I'm not sure what criteria they use for underwriting, but I was in a good position following my Chapter 13, good job, zero debt, low monthly overhead, and yet, in spite of a "pre-approved" application for a Discover-IT card they sent me in the mail, they denied me across the board, including a secured card.
Check out US Bank, their Cash Plus and Connect have secured card versions. Last I heard, they approve if your BK was discharged but wont consider you for unsecured status until your BK is 5 years post filing date.
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