• xenoclast@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Maybe you could just keep refinancing over and over until you’re making 0.01 payments a month on 100 loans. And have a max credit score.

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      9 months ago

      The terms of a loan boil down to “we’ll give you x, pay it back plus interest in y amount of time”. How do you stretch something with a legally binding predetermined end out indefinitely without hurting your score or financial wellbeing?

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          Isn’t that just kind of burning money at that point, i.e. harming your financial wellbeing? Also, aren’t personal loans seen as “bad” for credit score purposes? I had to take one out a few years back and my score dropped like 45 points within the week