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Credit Score gone down during mortgage application!!!
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Wow,is this true? I always thought they seen your actual score? Reason im asking is my record is clean except one default for £175 that i dont recognize and have put a note on my credit report.MovingForwards said:Ignore the credit score as it isn't seen or used by any financial institution. It's the credit history they see and use for their own internal scoring.
You are panicking over nothing.
Is it the actual report they get then? With details of all your accounts/credit limits/ balance etc0 -
0400772 said:
Wow,is this true? I always thought they seen your actual score? Reason im asking is my record is clean except one default for £175 that i dont recognize and have put a note on my credit report.MovingForwards said:Ignore the credit score as it isn't seen or used by any financial institution. It's the credit history they see and use for their own internal scoring.
You are panicking over nothing.
Is it the actual report they get then? With details of all your accounts/credit limits/ balance etc
I've commented on your thread.
You shouldn't have put a notice of correction, that just draws attention to it and a manual review is required instead of a straight yes / no. You should have raised a dispute.Mortgage started 2020, aiming to clear 31/12/2029.0 -
Thanks for this. I just checked and my apologies, it is a dispute. I checked Experian and it shows in the dispute section of credit report saying that i dispute.MovingForwards said:0400772 said:
Wow,is this true? I always thought they seen your actual score? Reason im asking is my record is clean except one default for £175 that i dont recognize and have put a note on my credit report.MovingForwards said:Ignore the credit score as it isn't seen or used by any financial institution. It's the credit history they see and use for their own internal scoring.
You are panicking over nothing.
Is it the actual report they get then? With details of all your accounts/credit limits/ balance etc
I've commented on your thread.
You shouldn't have put a notice of correction, that just draws attention to it and a manual review is required instead of a straight yes / no. You should have raised a dispute.
Is this better?1 -
Yes, it's much better.0400772 said:
Thanks for this. I just checked and my apologies, it is a dispute. I checked Experian and it shows in the dispute section of credit report saying that i dispute.MovingForwards said:0400772 said:
Wow,is this true? I always thought they seen your actual score? Reason im asking is my record is clean except one default for £175 that i dont recognize and have put a note on my credit report.MovingForwards said:Ignore the credit score as it isn't seen or used by any financial institution. It's the credit history they see and use for their own internal scoring.
You are panicking over nothing.
Is it the actual report they get then? With details of all your accounts/credit limits/ balance etc
I've commented on your thread.
You shouldn't have put a notice of correction, that just draws attention to it and a manual review is required instead of a straight yes / no. You should have raised a dispute.
Is this better?Mortgage started 2020, aiming to clear 31/12/2029.0
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