conversation: User (Helicon_Amateur): "Hello,\n\nI'm currently shopping around for a new home, and recently made an offer on a house with a pre-approval offered through a lender. In order to get the pre-approval I had to have my credit pulled which put a hard inquiry on my score.\n\nI'd like to shop around for better rates, however I'm worried that I will incur more hard inquiries on my credit score if I do this.\n\nIs there a trick to get competing rates without the hard pulls?\n\nThank you!"
  Self: "No, but most FICO models will consider multiple mortgage pulls within a certain timeframe (I believe it's 60-90 days) as one pull. In any case, no mortgage lender is going to bat at eye at multiple recent hard pulls from other lenders, that's very normal."
  User (Helicon_Amateur): "Thank you so much!"
  