What is the most common complaint against Cottonwood Financial Ltd.?

The most common issue consumers report about Cottonwood Financial Ltd. is "Communication tactics", specifically "Frequent or repeated calls". This is based on 253 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Cottonwood Financial Ltd. increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Cottonwood Financial Ltd. are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Cottonwood Financial Ltd.'s reputation grade?

Cottonwood Financial Ltd. has a reputation grade of C (score: 56.5/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Cottonwood Financial Ltd. respond to consumer complaints?

Cottonwood Financial Ltd. has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 13% of cases.

In how many states does Cottonwood Financial Ltd. operate?

Cottonwood Financial Ltd. has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 30 states, with the most complaints from Texas (138 complaints).

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

Cottonwood Financial Ltd. - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 30 states, reputation grade C.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Communication tactics

61
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

50
Attempts to collect debt not owed

37
Improper contact or sharing of info

21
Taking/threatening an illegal action

21
False statements or representation

20

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record cottonwood-financial-ltd Cottonwood Financial Ltd.

Grade C · 253 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Communication tactics · vol #446 · compose #3064

VOL 253
GRADE C
12MO 0
STATES 30
TIMELY 100%
DISPUTE 13%
ISSUE Communication tactics
RANK #446
COMPOSE #3,064

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Collection Bureau of Fort Walton Beach, Inc (254 complaints)

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

Cottonwood Financial Ltd.'s 253 CFPB complaints sit next to Collection Bureau of Fort Walton Beach, Inc 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

54.5% of Cottonwood Financial Ltd.'s CFPB filings land in Texas

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Cottonwood Financial Ltd. is volume #446 but composite #3,064, while Texas dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Texas 54.5%; 138 of 253 filings · 30 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2021-07 12.0%; 8–15% band · 6 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #446 volume; #3,064 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 2,618 places worse than volume

How does Cottonwood Financial Ltd. compare to its peers?

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

Cottonwood Financial L… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

100%

84%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

13%

24%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2021-01 2025-09

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Communication tactics	61
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	50
Attempts to collect debt not owed	37
Improper contact or sharing of info	21
Taking/threatening an illegal action	21
False statements or representation	20
Written notification about debt	19
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	12
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	10
Disclosure verification of debt	2

Where do complaints against Cottonwood Financial Ltd. come from?

Cottonwood Financial Ltd.'s own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Texas

138
Illinois

25
New Mexico

13
Wisconsin

13
Idaho

7
Florida

5
Utah

5
Washington

5

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Cottonwood Financial Ltd.: 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: 253.

4 peers

Similar timely response rate

Nearest collectors by CFPB 15-day timely-response %. This record: 99.60474308300395%.

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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