Is getting 3 secured credit cards a good idea to rebuild my credit?

Here is my situation. I just recently paid off all of my credit card debt and the only debt I have is a student loan I'm paying off, which I have never been late on.

I already have 1 Orchard Secured Mastercard and my credit score is already improving (it went up by 14 points this month). I'm thinking about expediting this by getting 2 more of the same card and using all 3 once a month to buy small things like car gas and chapstick and then pay it off.

Will getting all these cards in such a short time frame hurt my score, or will my idea of trying to rebuild credit quicker work?

Is getting 3 secured credit cards a good idea to rebuild my credit?opera house

You have made the right first step by getting a secured credit card. That was the first step I made when I was following the advice of Suze Orman from her book Young, Fabulous & Broke. She has a ton of advice in there on rebuilding your credit as well as other things financially related such as mortgages, stocks, 401k, etc. I am not looking at the book right this second, so I am not sure if she would recommend getting another secured credit card. What I did was get one secured card and then one unsecured card from a department store. Then I use them both a little each month and pay them off. I have raised my credit score quite a bit doing that. The most important thing is time and on-time payments. Unfortunately, once you screw your credit, you just have to be patient. I would recommend reading the book I mentioned and/or any other book by Suze. The more you understand about credit and how it works, the better decisions you can make. Good luck to you!

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