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My EQ jumped from 705 to 769 based on having ONE 30 day late from 2010 removed from my report! It was the most recent late payment on my reports. I had goodwilled this same TL previously, but I think a letter to the CEO is behind the recent removal. There are still 3 lates on that tradeline, but they are all older than 3 years now (if that's what matters).
I still have some work to do on TU, where I have a 90 day late reporting (and a collection that will fall off next year), but otherwise I believe it's time to leave things be and let the new credit I secured last month mature.
When I started working on my credit reports, my goal was to have good scores by October 2014, when my car lease is up. I think I am well on my way!
FICO! I use a monitoring service and saw the goodwill had semi-worked, so I bought my FICOs this morning.