What is the most common complaint against Southwest Stage Funding?

The most common issue consumers report about Southwest Stage Funding is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Debt was paid". This is based on 5 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Southwest Stage Funding increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Southwest Stage Funding have been stable. The company received 1 complaints in the last 12 months.

What is Southwest Stage Funding's reputation grade?

Southwest Stage Funding has a reputation grade of B (score: 67.2/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Southwest Stage Funding respond to consumer complaints?

Southwest Stage Funding has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

In how many states does Southwest Stage Funding operate?

Southwest Stage Funding has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 4 states, with the most complaints from Louisiana (1 complaints).

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

Southwest Stage Funding - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 4 states, reputation grade B.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

2
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

2
False statements or representation

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record southwest-stage-funding Southwest Stage Funding

Grade B · 5 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #3234 · compose #1582

VOL 5
GRADE B
12MO 1
STATES 4
TIMELY 100%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #3,234
COMPOSE #1,582

Volume peers

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

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

Southwest Stage Funding'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 →

Filing geometry

Louisiana is the plurality state for Southwest Stage Funding (20.0%)

Volume rank #3,234 and composite rank #1,582 diverge by 1,652 places on PlainCollector's CFPB-derived corpus maps. Corpus placement method.

Plurality state: Louisiana 20.0%; Mid-band (15–30%) · 4 states with ≥1 filing
Seasonal peak: 2016-12 14.3%; 8–15% band · 2 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #3,234 volume; #1,582 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 1,652 places better than volume

How does Southwest Stage Funding compare to its peers?

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

Southwest Stage Fundin… 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)

2014-07 2025-11

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	2
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	2
False statements or representation	1

Where do complaints against Southwest Stage Funding come from?

Southwest Stage Funding's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Louisiana

1
Mississippi

1
South Carolina

1
Texas

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Southwest Stage Funding: 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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