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Old 09-19-2009, 12:05 PM
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While I agree that you should keep it open since you'll be buying in the near future, a card open since only 2007 (2 years) still does not qualify as a long term for credit. When we bought our house in 2008, my credit score pulled up my first card that I got sometime in 2003. It was less than 5 years and did not make me qualify as having "long term" credit - which docked my score a little.
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