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Credit Application:

Your Age? 29

Your Equifax Credit Score? 622 FICO (2 months old)
Your Experian Credit Score? 580 FICO (2 months old)
Your TransUnion Credit Score? 744 FICO (Recent Score)

How many years have you been on file with Equifax? 10-11 years
How many years have you been on file with Experian? 10-11 years
How many years have you been on file with TransUnion? 10-11 years

YOUR PREVIOUS AUTOMOTIVE CREDIT HISTORY

Do you have an open auto loan? NO
Will this open auto loan be a trade-in? N/A
How many late pays within the last 12 months on the currently open loan? N/A
How many late pays within the last 13-24 months on the currently open loan? N/A
Your current open auto loan is financed with? N/A
Your current open auto loan payment is? N/A
Estimated amount you may be upside down in this vehicle? N/A
Rate your payment history on this open auto loan from 1-10 (1=poor:10=Best) N/A


YOUR REVOLVING CREDIT HISTORY

Total number of revolving account(s) you have? 13 (WITH 3 NEW ACCOUNTS NOT ON REPORT)
Total percentage utilized overall? 14% ($4900 BALANCE ON $35K TOTAL CREDIT)
How many of your revolving accounts are store cards? 2
How many of your revolving accounts are major credit cards? (i.e. Amex, MC, Visa) 11
How many of your revolving accounts are known subprime credit cards (i.e. Aspire, 1st Premier) 1

YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

How long at your current residence? 5 YEARS
Do you Rent or have a Mortgage, or Live w/Relative or Other? RENT
Your Monthly Rent or Mortgage payment? $1250
How long have you held your current job? 3 YEARS
Your total provable monthly gross income is? $8K-$10K
Your provable monthly gross income is provable via what method? (i.e. computerized paycheck stub, or tax return, or bank statements) ALL OF THE ABOVE
Is there additional monthly income? What amount monthly? NO
Describe the source.
Is the additional monthly income provable? N/A
Spousal income is not applicable. N/A

YOUR DOWNPAYMENT
Please tell me your exact down payment in cash? (rebates and trade equity are not considered, please input a dollar value only.) I CAN DOWN UP TO $4,000
Does any credit repository contain any Public Record? YES
If yes, please very briefly describe. JUDGEMENT ON MY EQ & EX FOR A DEFICIENCY BALANCE ON A REPO FOR $3.5K. I'M CURRENTLY MAKING MONTHLY PAYMENTS TO RESOLVE THIS.

Does any credit repository contain any Collection Account(s)?
If yes, please very briefly describe. YES. THE DEFIENCY BALANCE STATED ABOVE WITH THE OLD BANK AND 1 C/O FROM CAPONE FOR $1800.

THE C/O FROM CAPITOL ONE OCCURED IN 2001 AND WILL FALL OFF IN 9/2008.

THE REPO HAPPENED IN 2/2002.

Please rate your overall creditworthiness on a scale of 1-10 (1=poor, 10= best) 7
Please rate your Installment credit history on a scale of 1-10 (1=poor, 10=best) 3
Please rate your Revolving credit history on a scale of 1-10 (1=poor, 10=best) 9

New or Used vehicle you are considering: Please very briefly describe. USED, I'D LIKE TO PURCHASE A VEHCILE THAT'S ABOUT $15K IN PRICE BUT I DON'T WANT TO GET HOSED ON THE INTREST RATE. WHAT ARE MY CHANCES THAT I END UP WITH A LOAN FROM A BANK THAT ONLY LOOKS AT TRANSUNION REPORTS?




Marv, I was talking to one of my buddies brother who's a Finance Manager for a local Toyota Dealer. I asked him if he uses a bank that only looks at TU since my TU report is the best. He said what they do is they pull all 3 reports and submits the best report to the bank(s). Is that true, can he do that?


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I always pull all three reports. I prefer to use the most reflective credit report to rate the loan. That may not be the bureau with the highest score.

I then choose the lenders whom I believe will pull the most reflective credit report.

From my experience, Toyota uses EX and as a backup or alternate, they use TU. I recently bought a car, and my TU score was significantly higher than my EQ (see sig). I got 5.85% on a used car, using my TU report.

Marv, can you please elaborate on "Reflective?".

Does the person pulling the report have the authority to submit any report they choose with the bank?

reflective = best credit report that reflects how well a consumer repays their debt. This is not necessarily the bureau with the highest score.

As I indicated I pull all three, I know which report most of my lenders will use as a default bureau. The actual creditor can pull any bureau they wish for decisioning. At my request, they sometimes will use the bureau I believe is most reflective for decisioning, instead of their normal default bureau.

Cool, in my case I've got:

1. TU - No baddies all positive TL's
2. EX - 3 baddies 550 score or so
3. EQ - 3 baddies 622 score or so.

I think that in my situation the most reflective report would be my TU since my 2 other reports are so ugly. I know most people have all 3 reports kind of similiar but in my case it's 1 extreme to another.

Hey, you didn't say "Approved" or "Denied"

approved