Advice: CC or Installment Loan

I need some sound advice. I am trying to figure out the best approach to my only financial/Fico issue. I have an AMEX card with a $11,000 CL at 12.5%. . I have thought about asking for a CLI. I owe a balance of $8,000 on it. My intention is to have it paid off or nearly paid off by the end of the year through monthly payments. I don't have any pressing concern right now, but I do intend to buy a house next year about this time. Questions: 1) Should I apply for a card that I could expect to get a high CL with a BT of 0.00%? or 2) Apply for an Installment loan through Lending Club? I have a guaranteed 5.99% offer with them for up to $35,000. 3) Or should I just continue paying it down as I have done, and not do either above option? My FICO 8 scores are: EX: 771, TU: 761, and EQ: 743The FICO simulator shows if the balance (my outstanding revolving debt) on the AMEX card is paid off my scores would go to 809 on EX, 801 on TU and 793 on EQ.The only thing I have is a car note for a new Jeep I bought lat November. Thanks for ALL your help!

Gridium wrote:
The way I personally would play that scenario would be to pay down the Amex. The reason is a new account could hit your average age of account, possibly significantly depending on how many accounts in total are on your CR. I don't know exactly what that would translate into in terms of Fico hit and mortgage rate, but I would be hesitant to risk the possibility of a better(even if only slightly better) mortgage rate in a situation where I'm capable of just paying down a balance in a few months. Getting the best possible mortgage rate is going to be a much bigger money saver over the long run, than getting a 0% APR on a relatively small short term debt that it sounds like you're set to pay off in 4 or 5 months anyway. I would also, if I hadn't already in that scenario, talk to my credit union's lending department(or whoever I was hoping to finance my house through) about my situation and get some feedback from them, ideally after providing them with a copy of my full credit report(to avoid them doing a hard pull).I would concur. Just pay it down normally. At best you save a few hundred bucks by getting a loan or 0% transfer card, but you risk lowering your scores - possibly below a rate threshold.

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Seems like you work at Sun :-D
This kinda goes out to everyone that works there but just keep doing what you guys do best and creating amazing software and hardware. I really hope the Oracle takeover won't disrupt that at all as I am totally taken by Solaris I think it's awsome!!!
-Too bad that I got into so late though as I've been using Linux since around 2004-2005 and Solaris for only round say 3-4 months now which means in comparison my experience is really limited. However on the plus side things are shaping up very well as I seem to be nearly in a job which means that I will make lots of use of Solaris OS and depending on what the company wants I may be involved with setting Solaris boxes up too which would be amazing as it would give me a whole lot of opportunity to learn much more then what I can with 4, 10 years old servers as part of my home lab. Although the position is no way guaranteed but things are looking really positive.
All I can say is that I can't wait to use Solaris in a professional environment but also can't wait to get funding for newer more powerful machines for my lab so I can actually make use of a lot more Sun software like clustering and Java Web server and all the cool freebies which can be downloaded!

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