Bad credit seems to creep up on you when you least expect it. One moment it all seems fine and you’re doing a good job of staying on top of it, and the next moment you discover that your credit has taken a nasty plunge. A majority of people don’t understand what it was that turned their credit sour. Everyone automatically assumes that if they pay their bills on time that they won’t encounter any problems. Of course, if keeping one’s credit spotless were this easy then everyone would do it.

There are some typical things that cause bad credit. The first is inquiries. An inquiry can come from a credit card company, a utility company, or a mortgage company. The problem is that it takes 30 to 60 days for credit to show up on your report. What this means is that if you were to apply for five credit cards, and were accepted and issued those cards, the approval would not show up on your credit report for 1 to 2 months.

Therefore, if in the meantime you wanted to take out a mortgage for a house, the mortgage company would pull your credit, and they would be unable to tell if you were approved for the cards or not. The result could be a skeptical mortgage company who is weary of giving you any more money when they don’t know if everyone else in town has already turned you down.

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