Originally Posted by SilentKnight

Just be careful with too many credit cards in the pursuit of building credit history. Often they'll look at your 'available credit' - even if you're carrying no balance on the card - and consider the 'available credit' as a liability. They'll think, "Hmm...he has $60k available on his various cards - and if he maxes those out...we might not get our money."

It's a tightrope walk sometimes.

Best of luck with it all. I was fortunate my father-in-law was an accountant and offered good steerage advice...and I worked for awhile with CapitalOne which taught me a a little about banking/credit/financial insider knowledge.