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The secured card will work. The easiest way to get credit is to go into debt and then pay it off. Creditors just don't know how to deal with customers who don't show up on the credit bureau radar at all. It scares them.
When I bought a house for the first time, the deal was nearly queered because I didn't have a credit history; I'd always paid with cash or a check. Even though I had down payment money in hand and a verified adequate income, the mortgage company got weird. I finally had to sign a paper testifying that the reason I didn't have a credit history was that I didn't believe in consumer debt. Then I got the loan.
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