Strictly Evictions

very hard to get any answers or responses, however when its time to collect money for her services you can hold assure she will have time to contact you for that. never returns emails or call. very dissatisfied to say the least.

I dealt with an Alda Shelton.
She was generous with the free advice, I’ll give her that. But so much of it was WRONG, or ridiculous. She knows little if anything (and less than the average landlord) about Los Angeles Rent Control laws.
She kept telling me to evict for an additional occupant. I know you can’t do that. She kept telling me to do it, via email. I kept asking, isn’t that against the law? (You can add 10% rent for one additional tenant.) If you don’t have «named tenants» in a lease, you have to go by occupancy rates or something. Anyway, you can’t evict for one additional tenant. If I had pursued an eviction on those grounds, I would have wasted a lot of time and money.
I need to take pictures of my tenants’ bad behavior, which included physically assaulting me for trying to take a pic of this bad behavior, and she said to hire a security guard for a week and have him take pics of their bad behavior. What, a ²⁴⁄₇ guard? Like they aren’t going to wait until this guard leaves for the day, or for the weekend, and do their misbehavior then?
For a lawyer, this woman is incredibly stupid. Both my parents are lawyers, and I know a smart lawyer from a dumb, stupid lawyer trying to pass herself off as an «expert» in evictions and landlord/​tenant law. I educated her on the law more than she educated me.
Sure, she gave me” free advice,” then got ANGRY at me (all this via email, which I wasted a LOT of time with her on trying to get some sense out of her, figuring that SHE’S A LAWYER, CERTAINLY SHE WOULD KNOW THE LAW?) for not accepting her wrong advice at face value, and questioning her logic about the security guard.
I finally went and read the rent control law, which did show that if a landlord evicts for an additional occupant, the eviction will be dismissed. I had told her over and over that there were no named occupants in the tenant’s lease, and I thought she could move in another person if she wanted to, saying it was her care-​giver.
If this lawyer had been smart enough she could have served the 10% increase notice to the tenant and earned herself some money. But she had to go make s**t up and get angry when the client knew more about her business than she did!
AVOID THIS WOMAN! SHE WILL GIVE YOU FREE ADVICE, YES, BUT IT MAY BE WRONG! Plus, she has no common sense and suggests solutions that are crazy and ridiculous,

Having recently dealt with Ms. Allen on an unlawful detainer case, I can say I was more than pleased. She’s professional, understanding, and genuinely concerned with the best interest of her client.

Darlene Allen is very, very good at evictions. I couldn’t be happier with the outcome, given the circumstances. She shined in court yesterday. I am so pleased. It is such a relief to have this situation be resolved. I highly recommend Darlene at Strictly Evictions if you are a landlord and must evict a tenant.