I have about 10, but they're all VERY diffferent. charge card, gas card, rewards card, store card, debit, on and on.
The ONLY negative is that I opened them all within a year's period, which I'm sure is destroying my credit score.
However, is there a limit as to how many you can have?
I mean there are THOUSANDS of lenders out there, and many cards especially nowadays.
Having ONLY one or two credit cards in this day and age, I'm sorry, but is unrealistic and backwards.
The good ol'days of saving, paying everything in cash, and what not are over.
How can having multiple accounts hurt your score, when that just proves that you can handle more (that is if you actually can handle it), and it means you have more money to work with.
Even though this proves a risk, if you go years without abusing it, isn't that proving that you're a great candidate to do business with?
Seems common sense to me.
Anyways, someone with some knowledge please respond.
2007-09-29
16:06:59
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