What is the most common complaint against Professional Business Bureau Inc?

The most common issue consumers report about Professional Business Bureau Inc is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Debt is not yours". This is based on 5 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Professional Business Bureau Inc increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Professional Business Bureau Inc are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Professional Business Bureau Inc's reputation grade?

Professional Business Bureau Inc has a reputation grade of B (score: 66.7/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Professional Business Bureau Inc respond to consumer complaints?

Professional Business Bureau Inc has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

In how many states does Professional Business Bureau Inc operate?

Professional Business Bureau Inc has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 2 states, with the most complaints from Michigan (3 complaints).

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

Professional Business Bureau Inc - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 2 states, reputation grade B.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

3
Written notification about debt

2

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record professional-business-bureau-inc Professional Business Bureau Inc

Grade B · 5 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #3213 · compose #1640

VOL 5
GRADE B
12MO 0
STATES 2
TIMELY 100%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #3,213
COMPOSE #1,640

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Aaron Worldwide Collections Inc. (5 complaints)

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

Professional Business Bureau Inc's 5 CFPB complaints sit next to Aaron Worldwide Collections 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

60.0% of Professional Business Bureau Inc's CFPB filings land in Michigan

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Professional Business Bureau Inc is volume #3,213 but composite #1,640, while Michigan dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Michigan 60.0%; 3 of 5 filings · 2 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2014-02 14.3%; 8–15% band · 2 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #3,213 volume; #1,640 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 1,573 places better than volume

How does Professional Business Bureau Inc compare to its peers?

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

PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS … 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)

2013-09 2025-09

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	3
Written notification about debt	2

Where do complaints against Professional Business Bureau Inc come from?

Professional Business Bureau Inc's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Michigan

3
Ohio

2

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Professional Business Bureau Inc: 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: 5.

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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