There is a common misconception that the following represents the best tradelines to increase your credit score:
- The most in quantity.
- The largest limits available.
- The oldest age possible
- The cheapest prices around.
This couldn’t be farther from the truth.
In fact, we’ve never found this to be true in the last 11 years. If that seemed true to you, this blog post is a must-read. It can save you from a lot of wasted time and wasted money (and from having to dig yourself out of the hole dug by wasting time and money). The quick answer is this:
The best tradelines to increase your credit score are tradelines that counter the issues in your credit report.
More tradelines does not always mean more points.
Many companies offer “tradeline packages.” So do we. However, more does not equal better.
I repeat, more does not equal better.
In fact, too many authorized user tradelines can trigger an event called “authorized user abuse” and actually prevent the tradelines from having any impact on your credit score.
Unfortunately, we see this ever so often:
- We have a client.
- We explain that we won’t add more than 3 tradelines and, more importantly, we explain why.
- Nevertheless, we get their updated reports and they have 5 or 7 tradelines on their report.
This means they purchased from someone else (despite our advice) in addition to purchasing from us. Almost certainly, a lender will disregard all of their tradelines.
Quick tip:
Although we have found 3 to be the “authorized user abuse” limit, you may not need three either. If we make money selling tradelines and we’re telling you to buy less of them… think about that, for a second! You only need the tradelines you need. Not more. This is determined on a case-by-case basis. So, you should have this question ready to go the next time you talk to a tradeline salesperson.
A higher limit does not always mean a higher credit score.
Not only is that title true, but too high of a limit on a tradeline added to your credit report can actually lower your credit score, under certain circumstances. Generally, yes, the higher limit means someone “earned” those limits with good repayment behavior and, therefore, deserves a higher credit score. But, it’s more complicated than that.
“FICO” (among other score modelers) treats people of different ages differently. So, placing yourself on a limit that’s too large could put you in a different “scorecard” and result in the recalculation of your entire credit report.
This gets really complicated, but here’s the easy part:
Be reasonable.
We can help you determine what that means for your specific credit situation.
The same thing applies to “age” (or “history”).
For the same exact reasons, putting a tradeline with too much history is also problematic. This means buying a tradeline that’s really, really old under the mistaken belief that older is better. It’s not.
The most common mistake here is backdating your age. For example, a 24-year-old adding him or herself onto a tradeline that’s 25 years old (i.e., when he was negative 1 years-old.). Typically, you don’t want to backdate your 18th birthday. So, in the case of the 24-year-old, a 5-year-old tradeline is the max-age you’d want to add. Now, you can add multiple 5-year-old tradelines to increase your average age of accounts, but you don’t want to backdate your 18th birthday.
The cheaper the tradeline, the better? Absolutely not.
Of course, someone with tradelines for sale is going to say that, right? Yes. Nevertheless, it’s true. The cost of tradelines is determined by the humans interacting to get you listed as an authorized user. The product of tradelines is technically free. It’s the human labor involved that results in costs.
If someone is reducing their costs, they are most certainly reducing labor.
If they are reducing labor, that means they are cutting corners.
When they cut corners…
- You may get flagged because they added you with a CPN and froze the lines.
- They stop doing anything, and you might not get what you “paid” for
- You could not get a response to questions, because they can’t afford to answer you.
- It might not be legally done, because they can’t afford legal advice.
Remember this:
The cheaper the cost, the higher the chance that you’re not going to get results.
Are expensive tradelines better? No.
The theme of this article is that the correct tradelines are correct. Expensive tradelines are just that, expensive. I could give you the wrong tradeline and charge you a lot or I could give you the wrong tradeline and charge you very little.
Hint:
Get the correct tradeline. Then get the correct price. We can help you do just that.
Conclusion:
You need to know what you need. The only way you’re really going to determine that is by connecting with a trained expert. You’re not going to figure this out on Google (even this article addressing this very topic is not sufficient). Connect with us today by emailing info@superiortradelines.com or signing up now.
Matias is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of many companies that help people. He owns Superior Tradelines, LLC, which is one of the oldest and most reliable tradeline companies in the country.
Tradelines are lines of credit reporting on your credit report, your credit card, home loan, auto loan, student loans etc. etc. are all considered credit tradelines. This is how it works, we add authorized user tradeline(s) to your credit report to help increase the credit score, add credit stability, decrease your overall owed debt ratio and most importantly to make you credit worthy. The way we accomplish this is by adding you to a credit card with determined amount of age and limit as an authorized user (AU).
I need to build my score
24 Years Old
Credit score of 350
Debt near $12,000
Oldest credit card is 4 years
2 credit cards
3 closed credit cards