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How much will removing collections accounts increase credit score

Anonymous — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 16:46:39 GMT

I have three collections accounts - They are the only negatives I have - two from 2012 and one from 2015. The creditor has now determined they were in error, have sent me letters saying they are going to delete the collections from my credit report. My scores went down quite a bit every time one of the collections was reported. Will my scores increase once the items are deleted and how much will they increase. Thanks

Re: How much will removing collections accounts increase credit score

tufa4311 — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 01:10:35 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Will my scores increase once the items are deleted and how much will they increase. Thanks

Yes, they will increase. No way to know by how much but if they are truely the only derogs in your CR then the increase should be substantial.

Re: How much will removing collections accounts increase credit score

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 09:21:16 GMT

If those are your only negs, you should see a substantial increase. Last year I had an erroneous CO from Bank of America pop up on my reports and my score dropped 104 points. It took about 2 months for BoA to see the error of its ways and delete it from my reports. The result? An increase of exactly the 104 points I lost in the first place.

Credit reports are very individual though and your score depends on many factors other than payment history, so your score will increase for sure but it's hard to say by how much.

Re: How much will removing collections accounts increase credit score

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 09:49:37 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I have three collections accounts - They are the only negatives I have - two from 2012 and one from 2015. The creditor has now determined they were in error, have sent me letters saying they are going to delete the collections from my credit report. My scores went down quite a bit every time one of the collections was reported. Will my scores increase once the items are deleted and how much will they increase. Thanks

Yes your scores will increase once they no longer show on the CR. I had one come off my report a long time ago (it was only reporting to TU) and that TU score jumped up 25 points to around where my other scores were. It happened in one month.