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

CFPB complaint data Grade F 88 complaints

Essential Lending Inc - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 14 states, reputation grade F.

Complaints by issue type

What consumers report about Essential Lending Inc

complaints
Source CFPB Consumer Complaint Database
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Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record essential-lending-inc Essential Lending Inc

Grade F · 88 CFPB filings · 87% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

  • VOL 88
  • GRADE F
  • 12MO 56
  • STATES 14
  • TIMELY 87%
  • ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
  • RANK #877
  • COMPOSE Not ranked

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Conrad Credit Corporation (88 complaints)

Conrad Credit CorporationConrad Credit Corporation88Delray Capital, LLCDelray Capital, LLC88GB Collects, LLCGB Collects, LLC88National Account Systems of Omaha, LLCNational Account Systems of …88Essential Lending Inc (this)Essential Lending Inc (this)88
CFPB complaint volume neighbourhood (this collector + nearest volume peers)

Essential Lending Inc's 88 CFPB complaints sit next to Conrad Credit Corporation 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 →

How the 88 complaints break down

Every complaint issue type on record for Essential Lending Inc, not just the top ones shown above.

Reputation score breakdown

F
Composite reputation score
46.8/100
Essential Lending Inc

Blends complaint volume, timely-response rate, dispute rate, and recent trend from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database into one comparable 0-100 score. Not an official CFPB rating and not a finding of wrongdoing — see methodology for the exact formula.

Complaint volume F
88
Fewer complaints relative to graded peers scores higher; volume reflects footprint as much as conduct.
Timely response A
87%
Share of complaints answered inside the CFPB’s 15-day window.
Dispute rate N/A
N/A
No dispute rate reported.
Recent trend D
Rising
Whether the last 12 months of complaints are rising, stable, or falling vs the prior period.

State-heavy filing map

68.2% of Essential Lending Inc's CFPB filings land in Texas

Concentration is computed from this collector's company_states rows only, not a national baseline. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state
Texas 68.2%
60 of 88 filings · 14 states touched
Seasonal peak
2026-02 12.7%
8–15% band · 14 filings
Corpus ranks
#877 volume
Composite not ranked (fewer than 200 complaints)
Volume rank among 5,420 collectors

How does Essential Lending Inc compare to its peers?

How does Essential Lending Inc compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count
Essential Lending Inc National average
Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better
56
0
268
Timely-response ratehigher is better
87%
78%
91%
Consumer-dispute ratelower is better
0%
7%
19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Response speed vs. dispute rate, among similar-volume collectors

Timely response and dispute rate track only weakly together nationally (r=0.22 among collectors with 5+ complaints): answering promptly does not reliably buy Essential Lending Inc a lower dispute rate.

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Timely response rate (%) (X) and Dispute rate (%) (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Responsive but disputedSlow & disputedResponsive & trustedSlow but undisputed 60%70%80%90%100%110% 0%10%20%30%40%50% Timely response rate (%) Dispute rate (%) Essential Lending Inc vs. 9 similar-volume peers, by response speed and dispute rate Delray Capital, LLCCONRAD CREDIT CORPORATIONNational Account Systems of Omaha, LLCOUT TECH, INC.RSH & Associates, LLCTri-State Adjustments, Inc.Voss & Klein, LLCSCHOOLSFIRST FEDERAL CREDIT UNIONProfessional Claims Bureau, Inc.
Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database

Essential Lending Inc's complaint volume in context

Essential Lending Inc vs all collectors by complaint volume

Where this collector's total CFPB complaint count sits among every tracked debt collector (volume, not a quality ranking)

88 Top 16% higher than 84% of 5,420 collectors

0–20: 3,504 collectors (65%). Below this entry. 20–40: 565 collectors (10%). Below this entry. 40–60: 260 collectors (5%). Below this entry. 60–80: 163 collectors (3%). Below this entry. 80–100: 112 collectors (2%). This entry sits in this band. 100–120: 63 collectors (1%). Above this entry. 120–140: 67 collectors (1%). Above this entry. 140–160: 53 collectors (1%). Above this entry. 160–180: 42 collectors (1%). Above this entry. 180–200: 55 collectors (1%). Above this entry. 200–220: 536 collectors (10%). Above this entry. Essential Lending Inc 0 220 tracked debt collectors, bucketed by value

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Source CFPB Consumer Complaint Database · September 2026

Complaint Trend (24 months)

Rising ↑
2024-01 2026-03

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action
42
Attempts to collect debt not owed
24
False statements or representation
10
Communication tactics
7
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly
3
Written notification about debt
2

Where do complaints against Essential Lending Inc come from?

Essential Lending Inc's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Top states by complaints against Essential Lending Inc

Across 14 states with at least one filing

complaints
Source CFPB Consumer Complaint Database

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Essential Lending Inc: 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: 88.

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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