Kenneth Herbert Carlson

But . . . what about the Mom and Pop operation where the tenant who is behind was always that tenant who paid late, or was behind prior to the pandemic? The tenant who already is/was on public assistance, who did not lose that assistance, but simply just stopped paying the rent because they know the...y can. The tenant who is behind on their rent, yet all of their teenagers have dirt bikes, sports equipment, large screen televisions, etc.? The tenant who asks if they can build a fence around the mobile home, but has been behind on the rent payments by one month for over a year? How about that tenant? Does that make the landlord the bad guy just because he and his wife work 16 hours a day to remodel low income housing units to be a provider of that service, and need to by paid? We both work two jobs, and we pay thousands of dollars to make our mobile home units comfortable for low income people, we offer a rent option for purchase to help others become financially stable in their lives. Now here you are calling us bullies. I can understand calling the large corporations bullies, I have been a renter in a large apartment complex when I was a single mom. But this video is offensive to the small guy trying to make it work, and help others at the same time. Then the legislators complain that there is a low income housing shortage in California. Gee, I wonder why? It simply is not worth it if an owner/builder who works this hard, has absolutely no power to replace a bad tenant with a paying tenant. Commercial stores have the right to refuse service to anyone, after the customer has entered the store. What incentive is there for a builder to keep building low income housing? None! I expect the low income housing shortage to grow exponentially in California.

I see all these bad reviews, capitol letters, over-explained personal bad encounter with this firm and only one to blame for their bad dealings is themselves. If any of the complainers would of just read these reviews, you wouldnt have been scammed. Theres 100's of these types of scam 'n' jam attorne...ys and they usually end up with 1 too many formal complaints to the Bar. Reality with this group is 'They Will Never Be Fined, Dis-Barred (sp), will never be disciplined, and will never have anything negative happen to them even after being caught 'red-handed'. Why, the court system looks at renters/evictions as sub-humans, complainers, non-bill payers, etc. And cause the Courts/Clerks/Legal-Aides think this way, the Carlson group is shoveling out the 'scum' and clearing the calendar for real humans and meaningful cases. Im an example, I read the bad reviews, paid them over $1000 and they did absolutely nothing except argue with me on amount owed after every email, call, text, sentence, word, letter. They pocketed $1000 for email chatting, never 1 word of legal advice, not 1 form, nothing. And like all these others, filed formal complaint, proper channels. etc. and the entity that handles Attorney complaints closed the case with 'no-wrong doing' and rejected any/all of my evidence (90% of all emails were all about what is/isnt owed was not allowed to be submitted, recorded every phone call which contradicted everything they claimed to have done to assist me legally and would of proved their 100% scammers, not allowed, etc.). When you file, anytime in next couple days to 4+ weeks, they contact you with a THREE DAY deadline to prove your case against Carlson group. With emails, phone call recordings, texts, etc., i had @300 pages to submit in 3 days, while moving out, while working 8-10 hours a day. I submitted @40% only due to time frame and all rejected, not-recognized, wrong format, etc. So if you have a couple thousand dollars you just want to flush down the toilet and dont care about your case what-so-ever, hire Carlson Law Firm Group. A daily chat, even with a question on how to email them attachments will rack up, at the end of the day, an easy $500 and your original 1 sentence question will never have even been answered. Towards the end, my 2nd biggest formal complaint against them, they would email me 5,6,7,8, times in a row, breaking up 1 email so they could charge 8x$60 for what should of been 1 email. Each sentence became an entire email @$60 each time, BOTH WAYS (meaning when I responded to 1 of their 1 sentence emails, it was $60X2=$120). Bar Association that handles complaints against Attorneys said they did nothing wrong, nothing illegal, nothing immoral, they have full right to charge whatever they want even if it was a ONE word email! A 30 word email, broke up into 30 emails X$120= One stupid person who still hires this firm, even after reading this! I even offered them $5000 on top of my $1000 already paid to extend my winable eviction. They refused it. Why, THEY DONT DO ANYTHING and take peoples money by chatting with you, not by doing any type of any legal 'stuff'. $60 for a 'good-morning' email/text x2. So read before doing anything. Cant read, theres free Apps that will do it for you. Dont be a sucker like me and the rest of the 1-star raters.

Ken is fine. If he passes you to Mike Hanna do yourself a favor & RUN. Mike screwed up my case BIG time. He was paid to complete & file paperwork which he had a MONTH to do but just didn’t bother. He was constantly contacted & reminded about this paperwork that had a deadline, yet he still failed to ...do the work. There was no excuse/reason as to why he didn’t do it. Not even an apology. This resulted in my easily winnable case being transformed into a complete nightmare. The whole case should have been thrown out. It’s still going on. If he did the work he was paid to do, I wouldn’t be in this mess. After massively botching up my case Mike did some free work, as he should have. If he didn’t mess up so badly he wouldn’t of had to. Even then he was making a range of mistakes with paperwork, filing, WHERE to file. The number of mistakes he made is absurd, I had to point them out to him & have them corrected. He gave legal advice that was either regurgitated from Ken, wrong or he seemed like he was making a blind guess. He has poor communication. $75 per email, $6 p/min hotline; to talk to someone who doesn’t even know what they’re doing?Absolute joke. His response to most questions is “Let me ask Ken” - is there anything you do know? I’m calling your $6 p/min hotline to receive legal advice/help from you. Mike would always say “I’ll get back to you”. Never would. I’d follow up with emails+texts asking if he could get back to me like he promised. If he did decide to grace me with a response, it wouldn’t be until days later after constant persistence. I asked multiple times if he had any issues with me due to the way he was treating me + my case, only for him to deny he had; yet continued with his unprofessional behavior. Mistakes related to my case could have been realized if he put the effort into doing some research. I found legal arguments for myself just by looking online. I am not educated/trained in law, yet I found discrepancies in my case which he didn’t pick up. It’s questionable whether he actually looked through my case file. If he had any passion for the line of work he’s in, maybe he would put in some effort & find these things out for himself. I raised my concerns to Ken. Pointed out mistakes made, his insufficiency when it came to communication… I asked if my case could be reassigned to someone else. Ken denied + advised that if I wanted to get ahold of Mike I would have to call his hotline. Why should anyone be paying for “I’ll ask Ken” or to chase him for not getting back on something as promised? Money is the motive, no professional pride. Mike is a provisional lawyer under Ken’s supervision. I don’t think he’s getting the supervision needed based on his level of work, that’s if he decides to do it. This is my life that has been messed up due to Mike’s actions & lack of. As stated, Ken knew of my concerns & didn’t do much to ease them. He is as much to blame as Mike. Ken once said to me, & I quote; “I don’t think Mike explained it correctly, so I’ll explain”. Why have him working on my case (which he clearly didn’t care about) or anyone else’s if you, his employer don’t even have confidence in him? At the end, both Ken + Mike completely ignored me after having sent emails asking for help & asking if they had any issues with me. To even have to ask that question is a red flag in itself. I have a hearing coming up which they were supposed to be helping me with & there’s been nothing but radio silence. They’ve left me in a mess they essentially created. Not only that, they don’t even have the courtesy to let me know that they decided to recuse themselves from my case. If you want a professional lawyer who cares about their clients, I would recommend elsewhere. Because of their incompetence, I was on the brink of filing for bankruptcy- which I told both Ken&Mike, asking for help only to be ignored. I’ve now paid a PARALEGAL to look at my case who noticed my judgement is void & is fixing their mistakes

I had a hellatious experience during COVID where the landlord rented me an illegal rental and shut me out of using the washer and dryer etc stated in the lease after I moved, and he was disapproving about my disability, orientation, etc. In the middle of a stay at home order this is cruel and unusual... punishment to do to a paying tenant just because you as a landlord think your "lifestyles are not compatible" with the tenant. My original lawyer got suspended and the retainer I paid went to waste as I did not receive value for the services which were not completed and I was left hi and dry. I was starting to feel hopeless with my case and overwhelmed. Ken stepped in and with his "a la carte, bite-sized" consultations and step by step information gave me the confidence to proceed with my case. I am still early on in my work with him but I knew I made the right choice to get his help. An injustice for one is an injustice for all. Ken fights for the underdog and knows the law, code, & procedures...He is expert in tenant advocacy, I highly recommend. I am not a litigious person but what happened to me during COVID-19 at the hands of an aggressive abusive landlord renting me a fraudulent property then abusing me while I was in it was so egregious that I absolutely had to stand up--Ken is giving a clear path to prevailing against fraud. He even made suggestions to SAVE me money not spend it or waste it on unnecessary lawyer services.