The Effects Of Multiple Credit Inquiries On Your Scores
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The Impact of Multiple Credit Inquiries on Your Credit Score
Summary: Learn how credit inquiries work and how you can shop for the best rates without damaging your credit score.
Understanding Credit Inquiries
Credit inquiries can negatively affect your credit score because studies suggest a link between multiple inquiries and higher default risk. This often happens when individuals in financial distress contact numerous lenders to find approval. Nevertheless, these inquiries can also result from consumers seeking the best loan terms.
How Inquiries Affect Your Credit Score
To prevent penalizing consumers shopping for loans, credit scores exclude any inquiries made within 30 days prior to evaluating your score. For example, if you applied for a loan on June 30, any inquiries made during that month would not impact your score that day. However, inquiries from the previous 11 months would be considered.
Strategizing Your Loan Shopping
Credit scorers treat all inquiries within a 14-day window as a single inquiry. Therefore, if you contact 50 lenders between June 1-14, it will count as one inquiry. However, if you spread these over a wider period, like June 1-28, it counts as two inquiries. Extending your shopping over several months can harm your credit score.
Tips for Minimizing Impact
Market conditions can fluctuate rapidly, so it’s wise to concentrate your loan shopping within a 14-day period or less. If circumstances lead you to pause your search and return later, try to keep each shopping episode within this timeframe to minimize negative effects.
By using these strategies, you can shop for the best rates without significantly impacting your credit score.
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