What is the most common complaint against Brown Olcott, PLLC?

The most common issue consumers report about Brown Olcott, PLLC is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Attempted to collect wrong amount". This is based on 12 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Brown Olcott, PLLC increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Brown Olcott, PLLC are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Brown Olcott, PLLC's reputation grade?

Brown Olcott, PLLC has a reputation grade of F (score: 37.7/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Brown Olcott, PLLC respond to consumer complaints?

Brown Olcott, PLLC has a 0% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 0% of cases.

In how many states does Brown Olcott, PLLC operate?

Brown Olcott, PLLC has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 2 states, with the most complaints from Arizona (11 complaints).

This data comes from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database and reflects consumer complaints, not proven violations.

Brown Olcott, PLLC - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 2 states, reputation grade F.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

3
False statements or representation

3
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

3
Attempts to collect debt not owed

2
Communication tactics

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record brown-olcott-pllc Brown Olcott, PLLC

Grade F · 12 CFPB filings · 0% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #2298 · compose #5033

VOL 12
GRADE F
12MO 0
STATES 2
TIMELY 0%
DISPUTE 0%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #2,298
COMPOSE #5,033

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: 1803 Capital, LLC (12 complaints)

CFPB complaint volume neighbourhood (this collector + nearest volume peers)

Brown Olcott, PLLC's 12 CFPB complaints sit next to 1803 Capital, LLC on the volume neighbourhood; peer NAMES stay, and disposition VALUES are this collector's. Grades compare collectors to each other - a complaint is a filing, not a proven violation. How to read a complaint count →

State-heavy filing map

91.7% of Brown Olcott, PLLC's CFPB filings land in Arizona

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Brown Olcott, PLLC is volume #2,298 but composite #5,033, while Arizona dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Arizona 91.7%; 11 of 12 filings · 2 states touched
Spike month: 2015-03 33.3%; 1 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #2,298 volume; #5,033 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 2,735 places worse than volume

How does Brown Olcott, PLLC compare to its peers?

How does Brown Olcott, PLLC compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count

Brown Olcott, PLLC National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

83%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2015-03 2017-01

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	3
False statements or representation	3
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	3
Attempts to collect debt not owed	2
Communication tactics	1

Where do complaints against Brown Olcott, PLLC come from?

Brown Olcott, PLLC's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Arizona

11
California

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Brown Olcott, PLLC: nearest all-time CFPB complaint volume and nearest CFPB timely-response rate among collectors with at least 100 logged complaints. State breakdowns above stay geographic; these neighborhoods vary by metric.

Similar filing volume

Nearest collectors by total CFPB complaints. This record: 12.

4 peers

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Data sourced from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainCollector

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Consumer Complaint Database, 1,139,236 debt collection complaints are represented in the current PlainCollector snapshot. See our methodology for how PlainCollector computes each company's reputation grade from this data.

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