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How to Rate Shop Without Tanking Your Credit Score

16 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief instructional segment, Daniel Rosen explains how credit‑scoring models treat multiple loan inquiries made during a short period. He notes that newer FICO versions group inquiries made within a 45‑day window, older FICO versions use a 14‑day window, and Vantage scores typically group inquiries within 14 days. Because the shortest window (14 days) works for all major models, Rosen advises mortgage, auto, and student‑loan professionals to tell their clients to complete all rate‑shopping inquiries within a two‑week period so the inquiries count as a single event and do not hurt the client’s credit score.

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This one's going to make you look like a genius to your clients. When someone shops around for a mortgage, an auto loan, or a student loan, the scoring models know that they're shopping for one loan and not 10. So multiple inquiries for the same type of loan inside of a short window, they get counted as one. On newer FICO versions, that window is 45 days, but on older versions, it's just 14. And Vantage groups most inquiries inside 14 days. So here's the tip: tell your clients to do all their rate shopping inside 2 weeks. That's the window that works no matter which score the lender pulls.