What is the most common complaint against Routhmeir Sterling Inc.?

The most common issue consumers report about Routhmeir Sterling Inc. is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Debt is not mine". This is based on 3 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Routhmeir Sterling Inc. increasing or decreasing?

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

What is Routhmeir Sterling Inc.'s reputation grade?

Routhmeir Sterling Inc. has a reputation grade of F (score: 35.3/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Routhmeir Sterling Inc. respond to consumer complaints?

Routhmeir Sterling Inc. has a 0% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 50% of cases.

In how many states does Routhmeir Sterling Inc. operate?

Routhmeir Sterling Inc. has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 3 states, with the most complaints from California (1 complaints).

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

Routhmeir Sterling Inc. - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 3 states, reputation grade F.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

1
Communication tactics

1
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record routhmeir-sterling-inc Routhmeir Sterling Inc.

Grade F · 3 CFPB filings · 0% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #3810 · compose #5107

VOL 3
GRADE F
12MO 0
STATES 3
TIMELY 0%
DISPUTE 50%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #3,810
COMPOSE #5,107

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: 950 Credit Inc (3 complaints)

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

Routhmeir Sterling Inc.'s 3 CFPB complaints sit next to 950 Credit 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

33.3% of Routhmeir Sterling Inc.'s CFPB filings land in California

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Routhmeir Sterling Inc. is volume #3,810 but composite #5,107, while California dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: California 33.3%; 1 of 3 filings · 3 states touched
Spike month: 2025-07 50.0%; 1 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #3,810 volume; #5,107 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 1,297 places worse than volume

How does Routhmeir Sterling Inc. compare to its peers?

How does Routhmeir Sterling 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

Routhmeir Sterling Inc… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

100%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

50%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2025-07 2026-03

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	1
Communication tactics	1
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	1

Where do complaints against Routhmeir Sterling Inc. come from?

Routhmeir Sterling Inc.'s own per-state count, not a national baseline.

California

1
Oregon

1
Texas

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Routhmeir Sterling 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: 3.

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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