What is the most common complaint against Forster & Garbus LLP?

The most common issue consumers report about Forster & Garbus LLP is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Didn't receive enough information to verify debt". This is based on 260 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Forster & Garbus LLP increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Forster & Garbus LLP are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Forster & Garbus LLP's reputation grade?

Forster & Garbus LLP has a reputation grade of D (score: 53.3/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Forster & Garbus LLP respond to consumer complaints?

Forster & Garbus LLP has a 98% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 23% of cases.

In how many states does Forster & Garbus LLP operate?

Forster & Garbus LLP has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 13 states, with the most complaints from New York (234 complaints).

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

Forster & Garbus LLP - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 13 states, reputation grade D.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

53
Attempts to collect debt not owed

35
False statements or representation

35
Written notification about debt

34
Taking/threatening an illegal action

25
Disclosure verification of debt

23

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record forster-garbus-llp Forster & Garbus LLP

Grade D · 260 CFPB filings · 98% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #439 · compose #3677

VOL 260
GRADE D
12MO 0
STATES 13
TIMELY 98%
DISPUTE 23%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #439
COMPOSE #3,677

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Marauder Corporation (261 complaints)

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

Forster & Garbus LLP's 260 CFPB complaints sit next to Marauder 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 →

State-heavy filing map

90.0% of Forster & Garbus LLP's CFPB filings land in New York

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Forster & Garbus LLP is volume #439 but composite #3,677, while New York dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: New York 90.0%; 234 of 260 filings · 13 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2020-04 14.4%; 8–15% band · 69 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #439 volume; #3,677 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 3,238 places worse than volume

How does Forster & Garbus LLP compare to its peers?

How does Forster & Garbus LLP compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count

Forster & Garbus LLP National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

153

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

98%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

23%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2019-06 2022-03

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	53
Attempts to collect debt not owed	35
False statements or representation	35
Written notification about debt	34
Taking/threatening an illegal action	25
Disclosure verification of debt	23
Communication tactics	22
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	20
Improper contact or sharing of info	7
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	6

Where do complaints against Forster & Garbus LLP come from?

Forster & Garbus LLP's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

New York

234
New Jersey

7
Florida

3
New Mexico

2
North Carolina

2
South Carolina

2
Texas

2
California

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Forster & Garbus LLP: 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: 260.

4 peers

Similar timely response rate

Nearest collectors by CFPB 15-day timely-response %. This record: 97.70114942528735%.

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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