Posts Tagged ‘Zero Balance’

 

Credit Score: Is there anyway to get rid of credit without negatively affecting your score?

Sunday, November 29th, 2009
samuel samuel asked:


Have a few credit cards with high rates that we no longer use. Is there anyway to get rid of a $10,000 credit limit on a card that has a zero balance without killing our ‘excellent’ credit scores?

We would like to increase the limit on our lower interest rate credit cards, but have not been allowed to due to outstanding limits on existing credit cards.

Melissa

 

How do I close empty credit card accounts?

Thursday, May 21st, 2009
atg28 asked:


I have recently checked my credit report and I realized I had several credit card accounts which were unused for several years running with a zero balance for some time.

I would like to close them to resolve my accounts and improve my overall credit.

I have to admit that some of the credit companies are quite odd (not cititbank or MBNA) but smaller credit houses from obscure stores I once purchased something to earn the 10% off etc.

How do I go about contacting the credit card companies to close these empty accounts?

Monica