How long does it take Bank of America to give you more credit?

Back in November 2023, I did an AOR with BoA but made the mistake of dropping my Merrill card CL from $30K to $2K. At the time, I probably had <$10K in assets in their brokerage. They gave me about $5.5K of total CL in November (all in now about $7.5K personal and $25K business.) Frustrated with the low CL, I then moved about $100K into my personal checking account and about $150K into their brokerage account in December to let it marinate.

Fast forward to the end of March, I applied for their Premium Rewards Elite card, a TR card and an AS card. Only the PR card was approved for $10K. The other 2 were denied. This meant that the 2-3 months of marinating didn’t work. Either that or they didn’t like the spread out money. So after that, I moved the $100K of checking into their brokerage and now I’ll give it another 3 months before I try for more cards. The point is that even at 2 months with $250K, they didn’t really give me like the $30K CL that I was hopign for.

One thought on “How long does it take Bank of America to give you more credit?

  1. How long have you had an account(s) with BoA? Age of accounts seem to matter more to them than other banks. Currently have $0 in personal checking (relatively new account – opened for $200 bonus since I got tired of waiting for the $300 targeted offer). However, my first card was opened through them back in 1999. Currently have $56K CL spread over a few business cards and $25K spread over personal cards. Haven’t hit them hard (yet).

    I did have trouble re-allocating/consolidating CL for a few of my AS biz cards when I went to close them. Cited “too much available credit” or something along those lines.

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