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Why is your credit rating worse if you don't have a mortgage?


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can_darter said:This seems odd to me - I appreciate having a mortgage shows you can pay off debts, but it's odd that having one increases your credit score when a lot of mortgages are such a large debt?
Whose "score" are you considering? The actual decision mechanism used by RBS on if to give you a loan or the made up numbers sold to you by the CRAs?0 -
It's about risk to a certain extent. If you have a mortgage, credit card, phone contract or anything, and are paying it off, then you are proving that you can pay it off on time. This is a way to earn brownie points, so your credit score goes up.Someone without a mortgage might have very sparse data on how they repay stuff, if they do at all. So basically if I lend you a huge amount for a house, and you are repaying it, you earn my trust and therefore points. If you never borrow from me, then I have no idea about your income, how trustworthy you are, and how well you manage your money. So no points for you.Our eldest son, now 20, has never had a contract in his name despite having a well paid job and no debt. Yet he can't even get a phone contract in his own name due to poor credit score. He managed to get a credit card, paid off in full by DD every month, purely to increase his credit score2
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ButterCheese said:It's about risk to a certain extent. If you have a mortgage, credit card, phone contract or anything, and are paying it off, then you are proving that you can pay it off on time. This is a way to earn brownie points, so your credit score goes up.Someone without a mortgage might have very sparse data on how they repay stuff, if they do at all. So basically if I lend you a huge amount for a house, and you are repaying it, you earn my trust and therefore points. If you never borrow from me, then I have no idea about your income, how trustworthy you are, and how well you manage your money. So no points for you.Our eldest son, now 20, has never had a contract in his name despite having a well paid job and no debt. Yet he can't even get a phone contract in his own name due to poor credit score. He managed to get a credit card, paid off in full by DD every month, purely to increase his credit score
@can_darter you can ignore the nonsense score, it's a pointless gimmickSam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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Nasqueron said:ButterCheese said:It's about risk to a certain extent. If you have a mortgage, credit card, phone contract or anything, and are paying it off, then you are proving that you can pay it off on time. This is a way to earn brownie points, so your credit score goes up.Someone without a mortgage might have very sparse data on how they repay stuff, if they do at all. So basically if I lend you a huge amount for a house, and you are repaying it, you earn my trust and therefore points. If you never borrow from me, then I have no idea about your income, how trustworthy you are, and how well you manage your money. So no points for you.Our eldest son, now 20, has never had a contract in his name despite having a well paid job and no debt. Yet he can't even get a phone contract in his own name due to poor credit score. He managed to get a credit card, paid off in full by DD every month, purely to increase his credit score
@can_darter you can ignore the nonsense score, it's a pointless gimmick
One of my friends took out a card to boost his file before looking to buy a house. He swapped his gym membership and his netflix subscription onto the card and then set up a direct debit to pay the bill. The card is used for nothing else.
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Nasqueron said:Just so you are aware, getting a card to change the score is pointless as nobody but you ever sees it, lenders do not use it, they don't even see the number you see, they have their own scoring systems.
@can_darter you can ignore the nonsense score, it's a pointless gimmick
If the lenders have their own scoring systems then surely these can only be scored if you borrow from them, not if you borrow from another lender? So how does it work if you have only built a score with Vodafone and you then try to borrow from Barclays?
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ButterCheese said:Nasqueron said:Just so you are aware, getting a card to change the score is pointless as nobody but you ever sees it, lenders do not use it, they don't even see the number you see, they have their own scoring systems.
@can_darter you can ignore the nonsense score, it's a pointless gimmick
If the lenders have their own scoring systems then surely these can only be scored if you borrow from them, not if you borrow from another lender? So how does it work if you have only built a score with Vodafone and you then try to borrow from Barclays?
They'll also use their internal systems if they have data on you, which will be more detailed.
If you've never looked at your whole credit file, it's worth doing to understand the data that is held and how it is recorded.
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ButterCheese said:Nasqueron said:Just so you are aware, getting a card to change the score is pointless as nobody but you ever sees it, lenders do not use it, they don't even see the number you see, they have their own scoring systems.
@can_darter you can ignore the nonsense score, it's a pointless gimmick
If the lenders have their own scoring systems then surely these can only be scored if you borrow from them, not if you borrow from another lender? So how does it work if you have only built a score with Vodafone and you then try to borrow from Barclays?Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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I would have thought that someone with a mortgage (when compared to someone without a mortgage), is more likely to be seen as less likely to disappear without paying their debts (as they presumably have equity in the property and ties to it)0
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KittenChops said:I would have thought that someone with a mortgage (when compared to someone without a mortgage), is more likely to be seen as less likely to disappear without paying their debts (as they presumably have equity in the property and ties to it)0
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Historically if you had a mortgage you appeared to be more 'settled' and not do a midnight flit etc.
(Also t would be in your favour if you had a landline!)
Not sure its relevant anymore because rents today seem higher to me than mortgage repayments.1
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