Curious...How many points should I expect when collection is deleted?

[MidnightVoice]

I had one baddie on my report - a 7 year old collection (score about 690).  When it dropped off, giving me a totally clean report, the average increase was 52 points

[rachreeves85]

On July 15 I bought the equifax FICO (683) score and the 10 day credit monitoring trial.  That night I browsed the forums and read about the goodwill letter tactic to get rid of negative info.  I had 1 collection from 2009 and a 4 out of 9 credit cards reporting at least 30 days late from 2009.  I sent goodwill letters to all of them.  Today (7/22) I got an email alert: 

Score Watch® alert July 21, 2013

View details of other recent alerts:

  7/21/2013 

Alert:

Your FICO® score has exceeded your target score of 700

Score Watch alert/Changes to your FICO® Score

Your FICO® score has gone up to 729 on July 21, 2013.

Target score alert:

Your FICO® score has exceeded your target score of 700.

Your FICO score may have gone up because the following 2 factors are not hurting your FICO score as much as before:

• You have a public record or collection on your credit report.
• You have a short credit history.

My score went from 683 to 729 with only the collection off my accounts so far...46 pts...in 1 week!

[1LNurse]

Wow this is encouraging news guys!

I'm still playing the waiting game. No word yet from myfico on a change in my score or my loan officer.

I'm hoping to hear something today..closing is 2 weeks away!! *fingers crossed**

[emmanuel67]

Did u send the letters to the credit bureau or physical address?