What is the most common complaint against Red Cedar Associates LLC?

The most common issue consumers report about Red Cedar Associates LLC is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Threatened to take legal action". This is based on 20 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Red Cedar Associates LLC increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Red Cedar Associates LLC are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Red Cedar Associates LLC's reputation grade?

Red Cedar Associates LLC has a reputation grade of D (score: 52.6/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Red Cedar Associates LLC respond to consumer complaints?

Red Cedar Associates LLC has a 65% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 20% of cases.

In how many states does Red Cedar Associates LLC operate?

Red Cedar Associates LLC has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 8 states, with the most complaints from California (6 complaints).

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

Red Cedar Associates LLC - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 8 states, reputation grade D.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

7
Communication tactics

6
False statements or representation

4
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

1
Improper contact or sharing of info

1
Taking/threatening an illegal action

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record red-cedar-associates-llc Red Cedar Associates LLC

Grade D · 20 CFPB filings · 65% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #1907 · compose #3789

VOL 20
GRADE D
12MO 0
STATES 8
TIMELY 65%
DISPUTE 20%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #1,907
COMPOSE #3,789

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Account Control Systems, Inc (20 complaints)

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

Red Cedar Associates LLC's 20 CFPB complaints sit next to Account Control Systems, 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

30.0% of Red Cedar Associates LLC's CFPB filings land in California

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Red Cedar Associates LLC is volume #1,907 but composite #3,789, while California dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: California 30.0%; 6 of 20 filings · 8 states touched
Spike month: 2016-10 25.0%; 2 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #1,907 volume; #3,789 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 1,882 places worse than volume

How does Red Cedar Associates LLC compare to its peers?

How does Red Cedar Associates 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

Red Cedar Associates L… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

65%

41%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

20%

50%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2016-10 2018-08

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	7
Communication tactics	6
False statements or representation	4
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	1
Improper contact or sharing of info	1
Taking/threatening an illegal action	1

Where do complaints against Red Cedar Associates LLC come from?

Red Cedar Associates LLC's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

California

6
Texas

6
Ohio

3
Arizona

1
Indiana

1
Missouri

1
Tennessee

1
Wisconsin

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Red Cedar Associates 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: 20.

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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