I have been banking with Wells Fargo for multiple years and have built my credit card limit up to $13k, utilizing up to roughly 30% before I pay it off each month, never been late. I have other CCs that have slightly lower limits that I don’t use as often.
I’m switch from Wells Fargo bank to SoFi bank, and after opening a checking/savings with SoFi, I applied for a credit card through SoFi (2% unlimited CC) but was only given a limit of $2.5k. Is this only because I have no banking history with SoFi? I need a CC with a limit that will allow me to use roughly $4k per month. Or am I doing this all wrong? I really don’t want to bank with Wells Fargo anymore and want to get out quickly. Will this destroy my credit making this move? Do I just keep the Wells Fargo CC? I’m a bit lost here. Don’t know much about how all this works and right after this post I will be reading up as much as I can on what to do.
Thanks in advance.
Applying for new CC, don’t understand a few things.
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Posted by DeltaTheWolf
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Credit limits are generally a matter of how high your income is and how clean your credit profile is, but SoFi is notoriously one of the stingiest with credit limits among all banks. Their underwriting is significantly more conservative than Wells, Chase, BofA, Citi, AmEx, Discover, etc…
Split your spending across both cards until you get an increase from SoFi