Get the Best from your Credit Card

Financial experts usually advise against canceling your credit card. They show you the fears of adverse remarks on your credit report and reduced credits scores. However, you cannot promise a lifetime relationship with all your credit cards! You are attached to credit cards from an early age. You may have a bundle of good and bad experiences while using them. Financial gurus advise to maintain a good relationship with them and advise you not to cancel them even though you don’t use them.

No matter which scoring model lenders use, it pays to have a great credit score. Your credit score affects whether you get credit or not, and how high your interest rate will be. A better score can lower your interest rate.

Don’t cancel your credit cards – use them to increase your credit score. If after struggling to make payments on them and getting your balance down DO NOT use them for anything more than a visit to the hairdresser once a month – and make sure you pay off the balance in full at the end of the month.

DO NOT take your credit card out with you – if you don’t have it you can’t use it!

Paying for large ticket items like holidays is a good idea because if something goes wrong and your tour operator goes  bust your credit card company will

Timely payment of your credit card dues is a must for you to have a healthy financial life. Delay in payment for just one day can bring a huge penalty for your available credit limits. Beware not to cross the limit of 30 days. You may risk your whole financial life if you ever cross this limit even by mistake.

At times your credit card payment is delayed due to some confusion or a small financial problem. If this delay is not more than one or two days, you still have an option to contact the card issuer. You can manage to close the chapter by having a word with them and they may grant you a waiver of late payment fees.

But if the delay is more than the time limit of 30 days the penalties are unbelievable.

These accounts are then listed as delinquent.

Applying for too many credit cards – You may receive a number of lucrative offers and thinking that your honored by such offers you continue accepting all of them. You may not need of all of them, but just getting very happy about your credit status, you tend to apply for all of them.

This will end up in too many enquiries on your credit report. That will damage your credit and some of the companies may even decline your application. Ultimately, you end up with a few refusals, a low credit score and unfavorable remarks of card issuers. Take only a few credit cards which are required for your normal routine. There should be a gap of at least six months in between applying for new credit cards.

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