What is the most common complaint against Columbia Recovery Group LLC?

The most common issue consumers report about Columbia Recovery Group LLC is "Disclosure verification of debt", specifically "Not given enough info to verify debt". This is based on 69 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Columbia Recovery Group LLC increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Columbia Recovery Group LLC are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Columbia Recovery Group LLC's reputation grade?

Columbia Recovery Group LLC has a reputation grade of F (score: 40.9/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Columbia Recovery Group LLC respond to consumer complaints?

Columbia Recovery Group LLC has a 57% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 30% of cases.

In how many states does Columbia Recovery Group LLC operate?

Columbia Recovery Group LLC has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 11 states, with the most complaints from Washington (44 complaints).

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

Columbia Recovery Group LLC - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 11 states, reputation grade F.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Disclosure verification of debt

16
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

14
False statements or representation

9
Communication tactics

9
Attempts to collect debt not owed

6
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

6

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record columbia-recovery-group-llc Columbia Recovery Group LLC

Grade F · 69 CFPB filings · 57% timely · lead issue: Disclosure verification of debt · vol #1011 · compose #4882

VOL 69
GRADE F
12MO 0
STATES 11
TIMELY 57%
DISPUTE 30%
ISSUE Disclosure verification of…
RANK #1,011
COMPOSE #4,882

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Agency of Credit Control (69 complaints)

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

Columbia Recovery Group LLC's 69 CFPB complaints sit next to Agency of Credit Control 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

63.8% of Columbia Recovery Group LLC's CFPB filings land in Washington

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Columbia Recovery Group LLC is volume #1,011 but composite #4,882, while Washington dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Washington 63.8%; 44 of 69 filings · 11 states touched
Spike month: 2021-07 15.4%; 2 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #1,011 volume; #4,882 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 3,871 places worse than volume

How does Columbia Recovery Group LLC compare to its peers?

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

Columbia Recovery Grou… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

57%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

30%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2021-05 2025-12

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Disclosure verification of debt	16
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	14
False statements or representation	9
Communication tactics	9
Attempts to collect debt not owed	6
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	6
Taking/threatening an illegal action	5
Written notification about debt	3
Improper contact or sharing of info	1

Where do complaints against Columbia Recovery Group LLC come from?

Columbia Recovery Group LLC's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Washington

44
California

7
Arizona

3
Florida

3
Oregon

3
New York

2
Virginia

2
Georgia

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Columbia Recovery Group LLC: 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: 69.

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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