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Training Session · Beginner · 12 min+55 Mortgage Fitness Unlocks: Record Builder badge

Month 1–3: Build The Record

Choosing a credit-builder product properly, and the real mechanics of utilisation and statement dates — worked through with numbers, not just a percentage to remember.

Welcome

This is the phase where you actually build something.

Everything so far has been protective. The paperwork fortnight made the file accurate. The free wins made sure nothing quietly damages it. Both were necessary, and neither of them added a single new piece of positive information to your record.

Months one to three are different. Here you do two things: you put a credit-builder product in place and use it correctly, and you learn utilisation properly — not as a number to vaguely remember, but as a mechanic you can operate deliberately, on a date you can find in your banking app.

This is the longest session in the path and the one worth the most Mortgage Fitness, because it's the one that changes what a lender actually reads about you. Take your time with the worked examples — the numbers are the point.

Pick the right builder product

Operate utilisation deliberately

Earn Record Builder

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Regulatory status: GYM provides Mortgage Fitness guidance only and is not itself authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority to give regulated mortgage advice. Any regulated mortgage advice is provided by FCA-authorised advisers we introduce you to, after a full fact-find. The Mortgage Fitness Score is for guidance only and is not a mortgage offer, decision in principle or guarantee of approval.

Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on your mortgage.

Think carefully before securing other debts against your home. Buy-to-let mortgages and some forms of commercial or overseas lending are not regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

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Month 1–3: Build The Record · 12 min · +55 XP