What is the most common complaint against Hollis Cobb Associates?

The most common issue consumers report about Hollis Cobb Associates is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Frequent or repeated calls". This is based on 233 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Hollis Cobb Associates increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Hollis Cobb Associates have been stable. The company received 48 complaints in the last 12 months.

What is Hollis Cobb Associates's reputation grade?

Hollis Cobb Associates has a reputation grade of D (score: 53.8/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Hollis Cobb Associates respond to consumer complaints?

Hollis Cobb Associates has a 96% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 21% of cases.

In how many states does Hollis Cobb Associates operate?

Hollis Cobb Associates has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 27 states, with the most complaints from Georgia (143 complaints).

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

Hollis Cobb Associates - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 27 states, reputation grade D.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

67
Communication tactics

46
Written notification about debt

38
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

26
False statements or representation

22
Disclosure verification of debt

9

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record hollis-cobb-associates Hollis Cobb Associates

Grade D · 233 CFPB filings · 96% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #476 · compose #3589

VOL 233
GRADE D
12MO 48
STATES 27
TIMELY 96%
DISPUTE 21%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #476
COMPOSE #3,589

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Automated Collection Services, Inc. (233 complaints)

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

Hollis Cobb Associates's 233 CFPB complaints sit next to Automated Collection Services, 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

61.4% of Hollis Cobb Associates's CFPB filings land in Georgia

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Hollis Cobb Associates is volume #476 but composite #3,589, while Georgia dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Georgia 61.4%; 143 of 233 filings · 27 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2025-05 10.7%; 8–15% band · 6 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #476 volume; #3,589 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 3,113 places worse than volume

How does Hollis Cobb Associates compare to its peers?

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

Hollis Cobb Associates National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

96%

99%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

21%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2024-02 2026-03

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	67
Communication tactics	46
Written notification about debt	38
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	26
False statements or representation	22
Disclosure verification of debt	9
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	7
Improper contact or sharing of info	6
Electronic communications	6
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	3

Where do complaints against Hollis Cobb Associates come from?

Hollis Cobb Associates's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Georgia

143
Massachusetts

14
Florida

12
Alabama

9
Mississippi

7
New Hampshire

6
North Carolina

4
Virginia

4

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Hollis Cobb Associates: 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: 233.

4 peers

Similar timely response rate

Nearest collectors by CFPB 15-day timely-response %. This record: 95.87155963302753%.

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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