What is the most common complaint against Fendelman & Associates, LLC?

The most common issue consumers report about Fendelman & Associates, LLC is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Sued you without properly notifying you of lawsuit". This is based on 4 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Fendelman & Associates, LLC increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Fendelman & Associates, LLC are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Fendelman & Associates, LLC's reputation grade?

Fendelman & Associates, LLC has a reputation grade of B (score: 68.5/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Fendelman & Associates, LLC respond to consumer complaints?

Fendelman & Associates, LLC has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

In how many states does Fendelman & Associates, LLC operate?

Fendelman & Associates, LLC has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 2 states, with the most complaints from Missouri (3 complaints).

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

Fendelman & Associates, LLC - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 2 states, reputation grade B.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

3
Written notification about debt

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record fendelman-associates-llc Fendelman & Associates, LLC

Grade B · 4 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #3365 · compose #1453

VOL 4
GRADE B
12MO 0
STATES 2
TIMELY 100%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #3,365
COMPOSE #1,453

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: 90 Day Credit Experts (4 complaints)

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

Fendelman & Associates, LLC's 4 CFPB complaints sit next to 90 Day Credit Experts 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

75.0% of Fendelman & Associates, LLC's CFPB filings land in Missouri

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Fendelman & Associates, LLC is volume #3,365 but composite #1,453, while Missouri dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Missouri 75.0%; 3 of 4 filings · 2 states touched
Spike month: 2023-08 100.0%; 2 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #3,365 volume; #1,453 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 1,912 places better than volume

How does Fendelman & Associates, LLC compare to its peers?

How does Fendelman & Associates, 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

Fendelman & Associates… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

100%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2023-08 2023-08

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	3
Written notification about debt	1

Where do complaints against Fendelman & Associates, LLC come from?

Fendelman & Associates, LLC's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Missouri

3
Texas

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Fendelman & Associates, 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: 4.

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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