TIL a housing counselor told me my 'pay everything late but together' plan was tanking my score

Phoenix Grant · 2026-11-11T17:30:05.917945+00:00

I sat down with a HUD-approved counselor in Akron last month, and she looked at my credit report and just started laughing, not mean but like she'd seen it a hundred times. I'd been paying all my bills on the 28th every month so they'd come out in one chunk, and she flat out said "you're training the bureaus to see you as late, even when the money's there." Turns out my payment history was only around 60 percent on time because of how the due dates fell, and I had no clue. I switched 3 cards to auto-pay on their actual due dates and 90 days in I'm up about 40 points, which got me under the 640 my landlord wants for the lease renewal. Has anyone else had a counselor drop a fact like that on them that seems so obvious after the fact?

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