What is the most common complaint against Locate Services LLC?

The most common issue consumers report about Locate Services LLC is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Debt was paid". This is based on 4 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Locate Services LLC increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Locate Services LLC have been stable. The company received 1 complaints in the last 12 months.

What is Locate Services LLC's reputation grade?

Locate Services LLC has a reputation grade of B (score: 64.0/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Locate Services LLC respond to consumer complaints?

Locate Services LLC has a 50% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 0% of cases.

In how many states does Locate Services LLC operate?

Locate Services LLC has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 4 states, with the most complaints from Missouri (1 complaints).

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

Locate Services LLC - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 4 states, reputation grade B.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

1
Communication tactics

1
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

1
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record locate-services-llc Locate Services LLC

Grade B · 4 CFPB filings · 50% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #3420 · compose #1883

VOL 4
GRADE B
12MO 1
STATES 4
TIMELY 50%
DISPUTE 0%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #3,420
COMPOSE #1,883

Volume peers

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

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

Locate Services 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 →

Spiky monthly series

Missouri is the plurality state for Locate Services LLC (25.0%)

The 2016-06 spike coincides with a 1,537-place gap between volume rank #3,420 and composite #1,883. Corpus placement method.

Plurality state: Missouri 25.0%; Mid-band (15–30%) · 4 states with ≥1 filing
Spike month: 2016-06 20.0%; 1 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #3,420 volume; #1,883 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 1,537 places better than volume

How does Locate Services LLC compare to its peers?

How does Locate Services 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

Locate Services LLC National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

50%

75%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2016-06 2023-02

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	1
Communication tactics	1
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	1
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	1

Where do complaints against Locate Services LLC come from?

Locate Services LLC's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Missouri

1
Ohio

1
Pennsylvania

1
Virginia

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Locate Services 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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