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Re: credit scores as courting tool
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2017, 07:30:07 PM »
Someone who has never bought anything on credit cannot have a perfect credit score! That's how ridiculous credit scores are.
How is that ridiculous?  I loathe saying anything in defense of the credit scoring system, but it based on one's actually use of credit in the past.  If one has never used credit, then they have no score by definition, because there is no history to base a score on.

Re: Credit scores as courting tool??
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2017, 07:33:54 PM »
I heartily suggest that any man considering matrimony have house and career in hand BEFORE courting.
A decidedly non-traditional and, dare I say, modernist set or criteria for marriage.  Had Catholics followed your rules in the past, countless people, including myself, would never had been born.


Re: credit scores as courting tool
« Reply #7 on: May 15, 2017, 08:03:26 PM »
Someone who has never bought anything on credit cannot have a perfect credit score! That's how ridiculous credit scores are.
I must concur with Dolores that this part of your comment make little sense.
If you were an employer looking to hire a truck driver, would you regard an applicant with no truck driving experience as having a "perfect" truck driving record?  I assume not; why should it be any different for credit scores?

Re: credit scores as courting tool
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2017, 03:53:54 PM »
I must concur with Dolores that this part of your comment make little sense.
If you were an employer looking to hire a truck driver, would you regard an applicant with no truck driving experience as having a "perfect" truck driving record?  I assume not; why should it be any different for credit scores?

If I miss an exam worth half my grade, for example, should that exam (whose score indicates I know nothing about the subject) count toward my final grade? If so, I would get at most a 50% in that class, indicating I know only half the material (or less)! That's ridiculous.

It's the analogous for credit scores. Categories upon which there are no data to base the metric detract from your total score.

A perfect credit score doesn't necessarily mean you're managing money well; it does mean you're taking out loans and paying at least the minimums of them on time.

debt ratio
« Reply #9 on: May 17, 2017, 03:59:15 PM »
A better indicator for fiancés/fiancées to look at would be their debt ratio.
But then again, any quantification has its limitations.