What is the most common complaint against Fairway Collections, LLC?

The most common issue consumers report about Fairway Collections, LLC is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Attempted to collect wrong amount". This is based on 29 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Fairway Collections, LLC increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Fairway Collections, LLC are falling. The company received 4 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Fairway Collections, LLC's reputation grade?

Fairway Collections, LLC has a reputation grade of C (score: 60.2/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Fairway Collections, LLC respond to consumer complaints?

Fairway Collections, LLC has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 30% of cases.

In how many states does Fairway Collections, LLC operate?

Fairway Collections, LLC has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 5 states, with the most complaints from Washington (23 complaints).

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

Fairway Collections, LLC - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 5 states, reputation grade C.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

8
False statements or representation

7
Written notification about debt

4
Disclosure verification of debt

3
Taking/threatening an illegal action

3
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

2

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record fairway-collections-llc Fairway Collections, LLC

Grade C · 29 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #1561 · compose #2333

VOL 29
GRADE C
12MO 4
STATES 5
TIMELY 100%
DISPUTE 30%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #1,561
COMPOSE #2,333

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Acquired Assets, Ltd. (29 complaints)

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

Fairway Collections, LLC's 29 CFPB complaints sit next to Acquired Assets, Ltd. 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

79.3% of Fairway Collections, LLC's CFPB filings land in Washington

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Fairway Collections, LLC is volume #1,561 but composite #2,333, while Washington dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Washington 79.3%; 23 of 29 filings · 5 states touched
Spike month: 2025-09 23.1%; 12 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #1,561 volume; #2,333 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 772 places worse than volume

How does Fairway Collections, LLC compare to its peers?

How does Fairway Collections, 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

Fairway Collections, L… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

100%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

30%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2023-02 2025-11

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	8
False statements or representation	7
Written notification about debt	4
Disclosure verification of debt	3
Taking/threatening an illegal action	3
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	2
Communication tactics	1
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	1

Where do complaints against Fairway Collections, LLC come from?

Fairway Collections, LLC's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Washington

23
California

3
Colorado

1
Florida

1
Oregon

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Fairway Collections, 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: 29.

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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