Most of you know we handle some rental properties .... when a new prospective tenant applies, we run a credit report .... the credit report includes a FICO score. Okayfine. Just normal stuff....
But we are seeing a lot of FICO scores below 600! And I'd think a credit score in the 500s would indicate charge-offs and collection accounts, judgments, maybe a bankruptcy ... but NO.
The most recent applicant we reviewed had a FICO score of 548 ... NO collections, NO charge-offs, NO BK, NO judgements, NO mortgage lates, NO foreclosure. Just a whole bunch of maxed out credit cards, and some 60 day lates.
Here's the question: Has the FICO scoring system changed since the "credit crisis"??? It would seem to me that a score in the 500s is a pretty hard hit for nothing more than some ....ahhh... "indiscretion" in the use of plastic. :-)
Thoughts, anyone?
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