Credit Advice

Do you actually have no credit or do you have poor credit? If you have poor credit, you are out of luck and will have to pay with a secured card or something else that is expensive. If you have no credit history, try Capital One. They seem to be pretty good about giving people a chance to start a credit history.

I have NO credit. So, I need to find a way to START to build credit. And I already tried Capital One, declined due to lack of credit history..

Find what I like to call a "ghetto card"

There are plenty, search for zero history cards. My first card was one of these. Limit of like $300, and a starting fee of like $50 to boot. It sucked. But it was worth it. I had it for three months and was then approved for a Chase Mastercard for $5000. Although that was pre-crisis cerca 2008.

A second option is to take out a loan with a co-signer. I also did this with my first car and my father co-signed. They approved it on his credit but it went under my name and it went quite well. You could do this with a small personal loan, perhaps at a local bank.

Those are pretty much the only two options. Other credit lines include student loans which are easily approved in most cases, although you need to be a student obviously.

Another option is a healthcare card. There are some credit cards that function for health-care only. They are fantastic and usually give you 0% on new medical expenses. I was approved for one at my dentist, with a 10k limit. Used that one time for a teeth cleaning and paid it off. However they closed me after 6 months of being healthy, kind of ironic.

Good luck and try those. I dont know how much harder it might be with new legislation but Im sure you can make it.

My mother just got two 'ghetto cards' and she just recently divorced and filed bankruptcy and never had much credit anyway as my father had it all. So you can certainly get some now.

Your best bet is a secured card with a national bank for like 500 dollars. Stay away from those ghetto cards they will Kill you with the annual fees and interest is like 33 percent. When you get the secured card from the bank, Pay it on time and they will most likely after a year turn it into a unsecured card, and most likely even raise your credit limit. Then from there, well it all depends on all kinds of variables, but a car loan or personnel loan will help out tremendously. Also dont Max out the card or any credit card for that matter, you only want like 20 percent utilization on any cards.