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I'm at the maximum limit on my card. Will it affect my score even if I pay on time?

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Markita Aldridge
Mortgage Consultant, WestStar Mortgage
www.thelendingadvisors.com  
703-497-3936

Markita has been called :The Queen of Mortgage Financing especially after a BK". Since 2002, Markita has been a top-producing loan officer with WestStar Mortgage located in Lake Ridge, VA. She offers her clients expert service in mortgage financing regardless of credit history. Markita's former career as a professional basketball player with the "Washington Mystics of the WNBA" has been her foundation for creating a TEAM atmosphere when dealing with her mortgage clients. She truly believes Together Everyone Accomplishes More! You can visit her website at <a>www.TheLendingAdvisors.com</a> for more information and several FREE mortgage reports that reveal lending secrets other mortgage bankers don't want you to know!

I'm at the maximum limit on my card. Will it affect my score even if I pay on time?

 

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Host: I am at the maximum limit on my card; will it affect my score even if I pay on time?

Markita Aldridge-Woods: Yes, actually it will. You will become a credit risk anytime your credit amount goes over 50% of the balance, and that is because 30% of your score is related to your outstanding balances. So, if you re maxed out of all your credit cards, which you ve never missed the payment in three years, you actually going to have a lower score. Once you cross 50%, it s dangerous score. If you go above 75% of the credit limit, it s dangerous score. So, for instance if you have a credit card and they had balances of $1,000, so let's just say American Express gave a $1,000 and you have charged over $750 on that account, you have gone past the 75% threshold for that account and it s going to actually go down on your score because you are actually going to considered at risk and you are going to be considered what s called maxed out.

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