My adult daughter and I rented a beautiful home from Austin Dach in Eureka for approximately 7 years. We found him to be very personable and easy to work with. Whenever a maintenance issue came up, he would swiftly hire contractors to get things fixed right the first time. Sadly the property owner decided to sell the home but Austin made sure we had adequate time to vacate and offered assistance above and beyond. Great guy and absolutely professional. We miss you Austin! read more

Housing is really hard up here so if you rent from these people watch out..... And if you are thinking of letting them "manage your property" they really don't do anything that you cant do in 5 minutes. A real mess of a company...... They had me sign a lease on a place while the previous tenants were still on the lease. I was moving into a 3 bedroom- one person was staying and 2 were moving out. I paid my rent in advance because I was going to be out of town when my lease started, same as my other roommate moving in. The employee there Frankie then was trying to tell us that the rent on the house was short over $400. But really she had an extra $433.33 in rent from all of us because people were still living in the house and on a lease to pay and my other roommate and I had paid in advance. After arguing with me about it over text, she finally just said: "I'm not at my ledger". I asked her to email a copy of it. She sends me a copy of it with a reply later that It had errors and here is a new one. A super sketchy start, since she tried. After that, she was pretty rude over text, probably doesn't even know what a "California lifestyle" is... oh oh oh but get this.... they mailed my deposit to the house I rented from them...... Yes, I live there still that is why I am getting my security deposit back. read more

Wish I could give zero stars. I rented from them a few years back, and there were racoon-sized holes chewed through the vents going underneath the house when we did our first walkthrough. The house was also dirty and dusty. I brought it up, and they said everything would be fixed and clean by the time we moved in. Turns out the hole was still there and the house had NOT been cleaned before we moved in, meaning I had to deep clean while moving all our stuff in. Come winter, some raccoons moved into our crawl space and we could hear them under our tub and in the attic. Then RATS got INSIDE the house. They would come in through the hole that Frankie had ignored for months. They got in our kitchen, leaving poop and dirty paw prints everywhere. They would crawl on our counters, up the cabinets (somehow), and even make their way into our bedrooms on the opposite end of the house. It was horrifying. I had to clean and sanitize everything daily to keep our household from getting sick. I called the city and they said it was a huge health hazard, but that they couldn't do anything about it for some reason. Said we could sue but it would be easier if we just moved out. I constantly called Frankie, but she refused to send pest control and instead kept sending her handyman, who was unable to eradicate the problem or properly fix the hole. We lived in filth for months, and eventually we were told to leave the house because the property owner wanted to "move back in"...right. Immediately we saw our rental back up on Craigslist. Pretty sure Frankie just got tired of me calling her about the pest problem. Someone else moved into our rental right after we moved out (it wasn't the owner), and I know they could not have solved the pest issue before the new family moved in. These people are the most greedy slumlords I've ever had the displeasure of renting from. Truly the worst of the worst. read more

Efficient, accessible and friendly business; Ms. Pierce is great! She took the time to meet my dog, listen and answer my questions - no evasiveness. When one rental was held up, she helped me verify listings and vital information on rentals I found online. I live out of the area, thus, Ms. Pierce went out of her way to help - something she absolutely had no obligation to do! She's just a nice person. And a Pro! My husband had an awful experience with a PM company. Trust me when I say, CLR is on it and Highly Recommended! I still consider myself a client unless we decide to rent from a private party. However, California Lifestyles Realty gets the job done! The rental market is crazy and this lady knows her stuff! Kudos! Much gratitude, Stephanie read more

This company is horrible. Austin Dach just ripped off our kids on their deposit by charging hundreds for repairs that existed when the kids moved in and they refused to fix when they were living there. Last summer I replaced A very old dryer vent hose with new hardware that cost less than $20. Austin just charged them $135 to put another one in. Horrible rip off. read more

Not the worst, but certainly not the best realty company to go through. I mostly dealt with Christine Pierce throughout my time of renting from CLR. Christine isn't much of a people person. She comes off as cold and disgruntled even when she's initially showing a place. It's like everything and everyone is continuously inconveniencing her the way she acts towards people. She lied about the apartment complex, or rather told a bunch of white lies, saying that the place was quiet and full of single working people. It turned out that the complex was full of loud married people/couples with screaming children. The complex was far from quiet. The apartment I ended up getting was not cleaned well (sticky hardwood floors and dirty carpet). Christine said that the tenant before was still in the process of moving/cleaning and so it would be cleaner when I moved in, which was another lie because it was in exactly the same condition when moving in. When moving out, I cleaned the place better than what was given to me and had a professional carpet cleaner come out too (which is required in the lease), but apparently Christine thought I did not clean it well enough and ended up ripping me off by hiring a cleaning company to come out anyway...so there went part of my security deposit even though I worked my butt off cleaning that place. My thoughts are that they don't actually hire a cleaning company, but say they do and take your money and run with it. CLR didn't do much about a complaint I made about noisy neighbors either. I wrote a letter of complaint about neighbors who often did loud things (slamming doors, carrying on loud conversations outside of their apartment, and doing loud projects like hammering things) at early hours of (and throughout) the day. These neighbors were so bad that others nearby started to move out because of them and I was losing sleep nearly every night because of them too. I think CLR spoke with them about their noise because the neighbors apologized to me a few times, but they would just continue on with their loud ways anyway and CLR didn't do anything else to fix the issue. The other issue with the apartment in general was it wasn't built well. I don't think it was insulated well, because sound carried like crazy from one apartment to the other. The loud neighbors were certainly loud, but this was amplified by not having well built/insulated walls to buffer the sound. People who slammed doors on the ground level would also shake the entire flour-plex. The entire time living in the apartment complex was hellish because of the poor build of the apartment and the loud neighbors. If you lived on the upper level you basically had to tiptoe around to not piss off your downstairs neighbors who could hear your every step. It was no where near the description that Christine said it was when first moving in. They show well because they have that new look with wooden floors and new appliances, but that's all they have going for them. read more

Frankie and Lou Cardoso moved us into a home that was riddled with black mold and continued to dismiss our complaints about it for over a month until we brought up our breathing issues. This prompted them to come over the next day, with the owner, and tell us we needed to be out the very NEXT DAY! We were so astonished at this demand and surprised by their sudden "concern". They refused to provide us with any accommodations even though they had known about this issue for months. They told us to "stay with friends" but we had literally no one to turn to since we had just moved a few months before from 6 hours away. We also have dogs which made finding a hotel/rental that much more difficult. Frankie and Lou showed ZERO compassion about the issue and when we pushed back for some reasonable compensation they got super angry and Lou actually got verbally hostile with us at one point. It was so uncalled for and unprofessional. Also the owner of the house, a sweet little old man, expressed having never been told of any of the mold problems until we complained of breathing issues. After much stress and struggle we were able to get two months rent and our entire deposit back so that we were able to afford another rental on such short notice. They are seriously cold hearted jerks. Don't rent from them and definitely don't let them manage your house. read more

Wow, I had to file a lawsuit against Austin Dach, the owner, to get money back. He decided to settle out of court to save face, especially since the building inspector of Arcata went on record saying that the rental was indeed illegal and posed a health and safety risk. read more