I started working on my credit in October. I don't know what my scores were then because I was too afraid to see them. The credit reports were depressing enough. Anyway, I'm guessing 500s. Last week, I decided to do the 30 day trial for ScoreWatch. EQ was 567. This was after getting a school loan corrected to show paid off and having a collection deleted (ITS letter did wonders on that one). It probably would have been higher if one of my paid off school loans hadn't disappeared. I got an alert this week and score is now 600. One of my collections, the most recent and largest one, deleted early. It wasn't due to come off until April.
I still have some baddies, but at least I'm making progress.