Landlord reviews in California

WARNING:Major Health Risks, Privacy Violations, and Harassment"I cannot warn you strongly enough to stay away from this property. My experience here with my 80-year-old mother was a safety and health disaster. Hazardous Conditions: The attic was infested with black mold, which she refused to address, until I spoke again about it. Eventually forcing us to move for our health. Zero Privacy: The landlords (fam)directly behind the unit & those men would try to look in through the gate. We felt constantly watched and unsafe. Utility Fraud: They use a 'make-believe' calculation for water and electricity. I strongly suspect the back house was tapping into our utilities while we were forced to pay the bill. Harassment: When I raised concerns, the landlord resorted to intimidation tactics—sending people to pound on our door and stare into the house to frighten us. Infestations: The backyard was overrun with mice. This landlord is deceptive and creates a hostile living environment. Do not rent!

Lia rents a bedroom in her 1 bedroom apartment. The rent is cheap. But at the cost of your sanity. Her bed is in the living room and you have to get past it to get to the bedroom. She does not work and there are no locks on the bedroom door. The bedroom itself is very dark - the window is under a hedge of trees. You may save money, but do your homework before moving in. Oh, and she has many cats.

Warning: unprofessional and hostile, look elsewhere Dishonest management: given false information on the history of the unit and discovered later that the landlords had a hidden history of conflicts between the residents. Unreasonable expectations: building has poor sound insulation yet landlords and tenants expect total silence. We were harassed for everyday tasks and we tried to compromise and set boundaries but landlords sided with unreasonable complaints we had evidence against. Harassed over utilities: Utilities are split between upstairs, downstairs, and backyard cottage to the landlord's "discretion". He harassed us over usage despite the fact we were responsible for the costs. Lack of privacy and peace: We felt uncomfortable and anxious at home because the landlord's aggressive management and refusal to mediate disputes fairly. The landlords are more interested in long term interests than an honest living space. They yell, lie, and ignore whatever is convenient for them.

Warning for those looking to move in at 10741 northgate st in Culver City. Do NOT rent or lease with this woman! Horrible attitude, disgusting behavior. Threw out my family and myself property within 2 days of us leaving the house. We were supposed to be given 18 days to get our property. did NOT give any warning or notice. Unlawfully went inside our home, recorded as well. I am absolutely heartbroken and furious she threw out our property. She had my childhood dogs collar who had passed away also thrown out that I will NEVER be able to get back. I am completely devastated and heartbroken.

Exteemely poorly managed building since new owner purchased and acquired the building in Summer of 2017. He has taken away free carports, free storage, and now charges for these former free amenities. He continues to raise the parking fees, also. He has gotten rid of our security system, and dismantled the rear electric gate so that any intruder can get onto the property at any time. We no longer have pest control, a gardener, or any access to water the outside plants/foliage. All outside watering has been abolished. Some of the good-hearted tenants sweep the courtyard and fill up water buckets to water the outside plants. He refuses to re-install any security measures to keep out criminals, all because of an unwillingness to spend money. This building is under rent-control, built in 1963. He looks for any possible way to charge us additional fees. The latest charge he wants to impose is a $75 fee for trash and sewer. We are a 13-unit apartment complex.

Landlords who exhibited extreme classist attitude. There is a huge hole in the wall that you can walk through between two of the units. One tenant had slugs coming out of his shower faucet. Horrible mold problem, including toxic black mold. Landlords totally unresponsive regarding possessions lost and health problems caused by dank environment. A PG&E contractor found a water leak in my wall heater in 2023 which they never repaired. In 2025, PG&E contractor asked them to clean the air vent in my heater which had never been cleaned. And when the HVAC man took the face of the heater off, there was rust on the inside. They cleaned the air vent and replaced the heater, but they didn't repair the water leak which could lead to very dangerous problems. When I was using that wall heater, it was broadcasting mold spores and mycotoxins all over my unit. When I was afraid to use the wall heater for those reasons, I suffered through two winters of 50 to 55° temperatures and 70% humidity.

Horrible landowner overall. Lived in my home for more than 17 years with my family, her and her husband ended up kicking us out, they went into our rooms and removed our door handles and took our property. She ended up refusing us access to the property to get our items and ended up tossing our property out without letting us know. She also recorded our home without consent and had recorded us as intentionally to use the recordings against us. She would show up without warning everyone. Very nasty and rude personality and behavior. Never fixed anything inside the house when informed. Would stalk us online to use information against us. Always mean and rude for the past 17+ years. It’s insane she’s still in business!! Absolutely no sympathy or respect whatsoever. Cannot take responsibility at all for her actions. Charging plugs were left exposed and even unusable even after letting landlord know. Any damages to the house she was aware of and did absolutely nothing. Horrible place.

Caution for Future Renters – 414 Skyline Dr, San Ramon, CA I rented this home for Jul 22 - Sep 25. While the property was livable, I experienced serious issues with landlord conduct, unresolved safety hazards, and communication. A shower door fell and injured my child due to a hidden structural issue. Later, I was blamed for unrelated water damage and confronted aggressively by one of the owners in front of my child. Despite my objections, they withheld a portion of my deposit for repairs. If you rent here, document everything, clarify responsibilities in writing, and know your tenant rights. This is not a complaint—just an honest account shared to help others.

Avoid this property and landlord as if your life depends on it. “Black Mold” is the reason I am posting this review. This property is infested with Black Mold. The landlord and management company are aware of it, however, they refuse to fix it. All they want to do is hide it by painting over it which will take about a year to reveal itself. At this point no matter how many times you request for the mold issue to be fixed, they will do nothing. Finally, this landlord from hell files a retaliatory law suit for us to move out. He claimed that we did not pay him June’s rent where in fact we had and lied to the court in order to evict us wrongfully. He set us up by playing nice on one end and approving a partial payment for the month of June for the repairs we had done around the house, on the other hand he used that partial payment as the reason to evict us. Our mistake was that we never responded to the suit thinking he would drop it as he was playing nice on this end. Shady behavior!!!!

The landlord of this property has absolutely no respect for his tenants, or their privacy. He's disrespectful of the fact that you're a rent paying tenant of his property and that even though you own the property, you cannot do whatever you want, and enter the house whenever you want, without the permission of the tenant. Though I told him how inconvenienced my infant kids were with his near daily showings late into the night (mostly post 7pm), and asked him to set few days of the week, including weekends for showings, he just retorted with we will enter the house, regardless of our concerns. I am glad we're leaving this place, and wouldn't wish it upon anyone to deal with such an empathetic landlord. So yeah I would definitely avoid this landlord if you have any other option, as there are better places out there with landlords with much more integrity and respect than this person

Acts very nice initially…. Once a week or so passes, there are multiple rules. Not to mention you have to deal with all the dogs that jump on you any time you walk to your room in the day time. Even though there is a set price for rent, she complains the water bill is too high, turns the water off and charges more money than initially agreed upon. No kitchen access. Fridge and microwave in garage - not clean. Accused me of lying why I needed to move out. Glad to be OUT!!!

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Rented for a couple of years. Paid on time every time. Maintenance was done by a handyman. AC was broken every summer and the handyman recommended replacing the AC but the landlord juat wanted to do repairs. Leak in the roof happened. Anyway, all that was acceptable and we had a good relationship until the end of lease when the landlord tried to charge a very high cleaning fee. I would recommend asking lots of questions about the security deposit. It seems to me that this landlord was planning from the start to charge an exorbitant cleaning fee regardless of the condition in which the property was returned. The property was returned at the same level of cleanliness at which it was given to me. It is just very shady business regarding security deposits that some landlords involve themselves in. They seem to think the security deposit is theirs to keep, which is why Assembly Bill 2801 came into effect in April 2025. Stay informed & dont let landlords try to pull a fast one on YOUR money

Instead of giving a written notice of any violation (ours was a noise complaint from downstairs because our son had just learned to crawl) the property manager Imad will approach you physically threatening eviction even if it is within the first month of living here. As well as, instead of formally asking if tags for a Rx7 ‘91 Mazda is up to date you will be threatened with being towed. (Tags are paif for and up to date we just hadnt put the stickers on). Even maintenance guys gave complained to me about the way he treats them. He will not give you 24 hr notice of fire alarm testing either and will be upset if you ask about the situation. Lovely location just horrible property management. I suspect black mold in the bathroom walls but he will not address and blames the bathroom ventilation. (Which doesnt have an exhaust and that violates CA building code)

Not only did Valerie not send my deposit or a deduction list (this is illegal) after moving out, she also did not show up to court when I filed a small claims lawsuit against her. She has also not returned any texts, emails, letters I have sent seeking my deposit back. People like this should NEVER be allowed to rent a property. I have had slum lords, and then there’s Valerie, somehow worse than every other slum lord I’ve ever had. BEWARE, DO NOT RENT FROM VALERIE - YOU WILL NOT GET YOUR DEPOSIT BACK.

Little-to-no insulation, cracks in the ceiling/ walls, very poor air flow, ineffective heating system, septic/plumping issues during rainy weather, serious reoccurring mold outbreaks, unresponsive and unreasonable landlords, with no concept of tenant's rights and local laws. Landlords' repairmen have not done lasting work, and one of them harassed tenants, in the past. (Do not rent this cottage!)

I walked on eggshells my entire residency. Valerie, who is also the neighbor, is not for, financially or mentally to maintain this property.She has made comments about women she saw leave the house, accused me multiple times of having one of them living here, accused me of having a massive party while I was out of town (I lived alone), failed to fix the windows which leak while raining, accused me of being the problem anytime something broke in the house, which is falling apart, told me multiple times that she can’t afford to fix these problems anyways, was in my business all the time including her accusing me of drilling into the walls while I was just vacuuming, banging on the gas pipes while I was just cooking, it goes on and on. After giving my 30 day notice I was guilt tripped about not giving her enough notice, texted constantly past 11pm with bizarre questions like “you are moving things back into the house” (I wasn’t). A nightmare living situation.

Property management is responsive and fixes issues promptly for the most part. Urgent repairs are taken care of quickly.

I have lived here for 8 years. Our landlord is lovely and has always been fair to us. I really appreciate how wonderful she’s been throughout these 8 years. We have a son who is 8 years old and the neighborhood is incredible and the school is amazing. I get to walk or bike with my son to school every day. I am so appreciative of my landlord and appreciate this neighborhood and where we live. Hopefully we have been equally amazing as tenets for her.

We were in a studio here. And the rent was definitely high for the space but doable for us. It is a really old building with a good amount of problems. When it rained there were multiple ceiling leaks. We decided to move and were at the end of our lease and we gave them the legal amount of notice but they tried to tell us we were legally bound to another month. When we moved we found mold had grown everywhere because of the water damage. It was such a nightmare. We moved into a 1 bedroom twice the size for the same price. While they were nice people they were extremely uneducated about local housing laws and unwilling to educate themselves.

The property manager, Todd, is fantastic. All maintenance issues are taken care of immediately. Property owners/Meridian Group sucks, though. They've needlessly raised the rent 10% the last 3-4 years. Pet friendly with an ESA.

Zero stars.!!This is a terrible apartment building. Stay away and don't waste your $3800 rent . We lived here for a year, and it was an awful experience. While the building looks nice on the outside, it’s terrible inside. The floors and walls are so thin. You can hear everything from the upstairs neighbors every footstep from morning to night, dogs barking, and dogs running on your head . If you're sensitive to noise and looking for peace and a healthy living environment, avoid !!you need to sign pages of contracts and community rules that they can't even enforce. Rules mean nothing in reality because they don’t care. The manager, Sharon, is unhelpful and manipulative in her email responses. She told us to notify her when the upstairs neighbors were making noise, claiming she’d handle it immediate. But whenever we did, she would respond, "Oh,But whenever we did, she would respond, "Oh, sorry, I'm 15 minutes away. Try again next time.

Don't move in here, Doug Luu(Live-in landlord) is an animal abusing, wife beating, slumlord and needs to be put on the sex offender registry. I've seen him abuse the neighbors cats by kicking/blasting them with the water hose, go into the female roommates rooms and stand over them as they were sleeping, with some of them moving out after 1 night, and the neighbors telling me how he used to beat his ex-wife all the time. Also, he's a liar that will tell you anything to move into his falling apart home, like he will tell you how much he loves to play pc games(dudes 60+ years old), only to tell you when you move in that he doesn't want you to use any of the outlets in your room because of his shitty wiring and is afraid the house will burn down. I can say so much more, but it would be way too long, Just don't move here.

Sublessor's Bradley Tuck and Randy “Rudy” Stevens lied to me about their relationship status before I signed lease. Within week 1 I was assaulted by Stevens. Within 10 months I was held captive in my room against my will by Tuck. They also lied about lease status. Attempted to contact Landlord Kahana Family Trust and Management company. Sent thorough details of crime and abuse. I was ignored. Learned trust member Tal Kahana is an LA DA. I sent her the 30 police reports and details of crimes and abuse. She told me to leave her and property management alone. Tuck and Kahana should be in jail for what they did to me. 1636 N Fairfax, 1636 Fairfax, 1636 North Fairfax rental

The amenities they boast are bottom battel filthy afterthoughts. 4 managers in 2 years and constantly changing phone numbers means i don’t have a contact number any more and I smell gas. Mold on walls painted over dark green. Rust on pool rail painted over rust color. Lied to by head of maintenance that pool is cleaned each Tuesday. I have photos of feces in that pool on Wednesday morning. They dump money into the cheapest decor and design options so they break. The blinds are $50 retail. You’ll be charged $250. Current manager is awful. Nean. Intimidating. Stalks people. Ghosts people in need. And makes critical errors (one tenant even moved out after being denied parking with a handicapped parking plate. Manager told her she wasn’t disabled enough.) Not a community or fun, joyful place to live. People in bldg are nice, keep to selves it’s just a general bad energy. Neighborhood VERY dangerous. Occasional gun violence and bodies. Constant choppers. Do not expert your deposit back.