What is the most common complaint against John F. Hayter, Attorney At Law, P.A.?

The most common issue consumers report about John F. Hayter, Attorney At Law, P.A. is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Attempted to collect wrong amount". This is based on 2 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against John F. Hayter, Attorney At Law, P.A. increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against John F. Hayter, Attorney At Law, P.A. are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is John F. Hayter, Attorney At Law, P.A.'s reputation grade?

John F. Hayter, Attorney At Law, P.A. has a reputation grade of C (score: 56.6/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does John F. Hayter, Attorney At Law, P.A. respond to consumer complaints?

John F. Hayter, Attorney At Law, P.A. has a 50% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

In how many states does John F. Hayter, Attorney At Law, P.A. operate?

John F. Hayter, Attorney At Law, P.A. has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 1 states, with the most complaints from Florida (1 complaints).

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

John F. Hayter, Attorney At Law, P.A. - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 1 states, reputation grade C.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

1
False statements or representation

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record john-f-hayter-attorney-at-law-pa John F. Hayter, Attorney At Law, P.A.

Grade C · 2 CFPB filings · 50% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #4148 · compose #3028

VOL 2
GRADE C
12MO 0
STATES 1
TIMELY 50%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #4,148
COMPOSE #3,028

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: 1 Auto Finance, Inc. (2 complaints)

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

John F. Hayter, Attorney At Law, P.A.'s 2 CFPB complaints sit next to 1 Auto Finance, 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

50.0% of John F. Hayter, Attorney At Law, P.A.'s CFPB filings land in Florida

High volume does not equal a clean composite: John F. Hayter, Attorney At Law, P.A. is volume #4,148 but composite #3,028, while Florida dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Florida 50.0%; 1 of 2 filings · 1 states touched
Spike month: 2019-10 100.0%; 1 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #4,148 volume; #3,028 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 1,120 places better than volume

How does John F. Hayter, Attorney At Law, P.A. compare to its peers?

How does John F. Hayter, Attorney At Law, P.A. compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count

John F. Hayter, Attorn… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

50%

100%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2019-10 2019-10

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	1
False statements or representation	1

Where do complaints against John F. Hayter, Attorney At Law, P.A. come from?

John F. Hayter, Attorney At Law, P.A.'s own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Florida

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for John F. Hayter, Attorney At Law, P.A.: 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: 2.

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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