Jason
Monroe,#2UPDATE Employee
Tue, March 06, 2007
Multiple credit inquiries for the same thing (house, vehicle, equity loan/line) are only counted one time as long as all credit inquiries are performed within a two week span. Borrowers are shoppers. As such, many shop for weeks and months and have dozens of hits over that period of time, which DOES negatively impact their score. Borrowers will tell me they haven't been shopping, then if you look at their credit report you will see that they shopped at a dozen lenders in the past month. THAT impacts your score, NOT a few lenders from LendingTree all checking at once. Either way, make sure you read the highly visible disclosure that tells the customer up to four lenders can and may pull your credit, are you OK with this?
Jason
Monroe,#3UPDATE Employee
Tue, March 06, 2007
Multiple credit inquiries for the same thing (house, vehicle, equity loan/line) are only counted one time as long as all credit inquiries are performed within a two week span. Borrowers are shoppers. As such, many shop for weeks and months and have dozens of hits over that period of time, which DOES negatively impact their score. Borrowers will tell me they haven't been shopping, then if you look at their credit report you will see that they shopped at a dozen lenders in the past month. THAT impacts your score, NOT a few lenders from LendingTree all checking at once. Either way, make sure you read the highly visible disclosure that tells the customer up to four lenders can and may pull your credit, are you OK with this?
Jason
Monroe,#4UPDATE Employee
Tue, March 06, 2007
Multiple credit inquiries for the same thing (house, vehicle, equity loan/line) are only counted one time as long as all credit inquiries are performed within a two week span. Borrowers are shoppers. As such, many shop for weeks and months and have dozens of hits over that period of time, which DOES negatively impact their score. Borrowers will tell me they haven't been shopping, then if you look at their credit report you will see that they shopped at a dozen lenders in the past month. THAT impacts your score, NOT a few lenders from LendingTree all checking at once. Either way, make sure you read the highly visible disclosure that tells the customer up to four lenders can and may pull your credit, are you OK with this?
Jason
Monroe,#5UPDATE Employee
Tue, March 06, 2007
Multiple credit inquiries for the same thing (house, vehicle, equity loan/line) are only counted one time as long as all credit inquiries are performed within a two week span. Borrowers are shoppers. As such, many shop for weeks and months and have dozens of hits over that period of time, which DOES negatively impact their score. Borrowers will tell me they haven't been shopping, then if you look at their credit report you will see that they shopped at a dozen lenders in the past month. THAT impacts your score, NOT a few lenders from LendingTree all checking at once. Either way, make sure you read the highly visible disclosure that tells the customer up to four lenders can and may pull your credit, are you OK with this?