Cleveland Plumbing has been doing business with Cummins & White for over a decade and have had…read moreefficient service with good attention to detail. We anticipate continuing to work with them in the future if the need arises. Other than rather high fees we have only good things to report!

Unprofessional at best. Extremely disappointed with the services of Robert Lamm. I had concerns…read morethat my parents' trust was out of date and might be negatively impacted by the newly passed Prop 19, so I made an appointment to meet him along with my mother. My brokerage featured him in a meeting regarding Prop 19 and real estate, I felt like we'd be in a safe pair of hands. Bob Lamm was cordial and voiced a willingness in the meeting to look over the trust and make recommendations. My mother left the documentation with him and told him that his expertise was valued and while not in a rush, we would the trust to be updated. He agreed and accepted the bound documents. One month went by, then another, nothing, not a phone call, no response whatsoever; I was so surprised to be dropped like that without a notion of what was happening. Honesty is the best policy, if the trust was not worth his time, Bob Lamm could have expressed this in a diplomatic fashion, my mother, while proud of her well organized leather bound trust is under no illusion that it is anything more than modest size and we would not be offended if he had been forthright and honest and recommended another company. Instead, I phoned the office 2.5 months after the initial meeting and left a message with the reception that we hadn't heard anything from Bob Lamm and that I would like to come by and pick up the trust. No response! A few weeks pass and I call the office again and ask when I can come by...the reception replies to my query says, "Oh, it's here, up in front". Really???? All the sensitive documents have been sitting up at the reception desk for goodness knows how long with NO ATTEMPT to contact me and let me know it is there? Wow. Wow. Message received, our business is not needed nor welcome. Bob Lamm's behavior was appallingly unprofessional and possibly in violation of some privacy protocols. Perhaps you'll have better luck with Cummins and White than we did...especially if your trust is worth more money.

I worked with Annie Park to settle some of the estate of my late husband. I was very nervous as I…read morefelt like I had no idea what I was doing, but she helped make the process so straightforward and answered all of my questions clearly and professionally. Very grateful for her help!

This is a long overdue review! My husband has Hyatt Legal as a benefit through his company, so we…read moreused that benefit to do our estate planning with Yvonne and her team. They are competent and professional, and I'd recommend them in a heartbeat. We met with them twice to get our will and trust drawn up and finalized. In our first meeting, they went over all the basics on what goes into an estate plan, defined what a living trust was, and how it was different than a will. They also went over a contract that would serve as an agreement between our lawyer and us. Once we signed the contract, we started to work through the details of our living trust, which included... Will, Durable Power of Attorney, Beneficiary designations, Letter of Intent, and Guardianship Designations. To go into a little more detail, they asked questions such as who would be the primary beneficiary (first in line), contingency beneficiaries (second in line), and alternate beneficiaries (if other named beneficiaries also passed away). They asked what we wanted the distribution ages for our children to be if we both passed away. We even went through end of life decisions based on various scenarios, etc. It was a lot to think through, and so many different questions and scenarios came up in the process. This initial meeting took about an hour. We didn't have all the answers in this meeting, but our lawyer said it wasn't a problem and that she would email us all our answers, along with the ones we weren't sure about. She emailed within a week, and once we finalized our answers, we scheduled a follow-up meeting to sign all the paperwork, and get everything notarized. Overall, it was a pretty simple and straightforward process once we got all our answers squared away.

Nothing but great experience with this firm. I have used their services for over a decade now.read more

I've been in communication with this law firm for two months. For the first month, it was extremely…read moredifficult to make contact, but finally when I did I was explicitly asked to complete a list of tasks that require me to hire, licensed plumbers, electricians, framers, roofers, landscape, architects, etc., which cost me tens of thousands of dollars to compile the requested evidence to make a case. I spent all the money and even hired a project manager that was the contractor that built a portion of the framing when the home was originally built. Finally, I had enough evidence to schedule a preliminary call and shared the evidence. The attorney acknowledge that there are damages, and a pretty solid lawsuit. About a week later I got an email from the attorney stating that he can't take the case because he is too busy. Really a bummer after spending so much money to follow the instructions given to me by Tom Borchard all for it to be a very expensive wild goose chase. I wish that he was honest with me from the get-go about his caseload and the probability that his plate would be too full. I'm not saying that he's a bad attorney. I'm not saying that he did anything negligent or with intent. I'm saying is that I was instructed to jump through a lot of hoops, all the wild being positively assured that if I follow those steps, then he would take the case. Turned out that I hadn't been informed that all of the work that went into providing the investigation that he proposed necessary, would all end up being a waste of time and money because didn't disclose that after we do our part, he still may prioritize another case. Now, I have had subsequent conversations with Tom since and he has explained why he can't take the case, but I believe it's a day late and tens of thousands of dollars short. It wouldn't be fair to mention that he provided a reference for another attorney, but I'm skeptical that someone that he recommends may operate in the same fashion. We made a commitment to spend the money so that he had everything he needed in order to represent us. He expressed explicitly that there is a case here. But I don't believe that he, nor someone he recommends will not put us through the same. We spent so much time and money to follow the exact instructions that he gave us. It would've been nice to know that we should get a second opinion before spending all of that time and money. His exact words after saying that he can't take the case was, "I think you should get a second opinion" due to the fact that he didn't intend on prioritizing our case, even though he stated that there was a definite case against the defendant. Take that for what it is, but I would absolutely not spend a single dollar until you have a contract in place, but know that the attorney has no intention of assisting with the burden of proof, but rather insist on you spending a boatload of money in order to Hand feed a clear line of evidence that shows negligence, fraud, or professional liability.

I have multiple businesses and needed help with keeping my expenses and books organized. Using…read moreLeyah has helped minimize My CPA costs. She was also helpful with other tasks that i dont have time for and didnt want to hire a permanent employee. Her assistance had allowed me to focus my efforts on things that will help my business grow. I would definitely recommend Leyah to anyone that needs an assistant or bookkeeping services but doesnt want to hire someone permanently. Thank you Leyah!

Folkers & Associates are reckless, careless, unprofessional, lazy, poor attention to detail,…read moreunethical, immoral and unaccountable for their mistakes/errors. We obtained them as our CPA for Individual with S.Corp Partnership. I would say obtained services but I did all the tax prep, data entry and better ways to max deductions, still unsure what services they provided that cost $1300.00, which I requested a copy of the invoice that I've yet to receive. They made a HUGE error on our estimated tax payments for 2022 which has resulted in us owing $30k for 2022, along with multiple accounting errors/discrepancies on the 2021 filed return. I emailed them the specific amount to use to formulate the 2022 estimated payments for distribution income. Instead, Folkers used their own report and based it off "2021 statutory requires" which only reflected 3 months worth of distributions. There is more that 3 months in a year and they didn't catch this error prior to filing and shockingly this was reviewed by 2 different associates. I'm not a CPA but since they were again having me do the tax prep that is how I found their error. I understand mistakes happen. I wanted to work on a solution, better understand how this error happened and ways to prevent future errors. I emailed them to confirm that what I found was indeed an error on their end as I provided the email I sent telling them the monthly distribution amount to use for 2022 estimated tax payment. After a couple hrs, I received a call from R.M. asking for some additional information (I didn't have access to or wasn't ready- K1) to see if there were solutions to lower the $30k owed. Our conversation started to take a turn as I was wanting to discuss how they missed this, why wasn't it questioned/evaluated/executed correctly. I only expressed concern in my tune during this conversation and explained I'm not angry, mad, I just want to understand. R.M responded "I don't think we can meet your expectations" then proceeds to tell me "the conversation is done" "I have other clients I need to get to" even after hearing that I still tried to reschedule our call for a day he is available and he absolutely refused. This validates everything I said in my opening statement. Folkers & Associates has unethically walked away using "unable to meet our expectations" as their reason and knowingly left us in the middle of tax season with a HUGE TAX DEBT we originally expressed and wanted to prevent when we hired them!

As a business owner I use Folkers and Associates to take care of all my business and personal…read moretaxes. They are always available to reach by phone and are so quick on email. Those two things are the reasons why we come back every year. Tim and Susanna make filing taxes a smooth process, even when it's not a preferred task me me to do I'll continue to be a loyal customer for the great customer service.

We needed to set up our corporation ASAP and were referred to The Law Offices of Gale and Vallance,…read moreAPC. In less than 2 weeks everything was filed! They held our hands through every step of the way, answering all questions quickly and thoroughly. Pricing was fair and up front. Would highly recommend and use again for all corporate needs!!

Andy and his team were excellent at helping me establish my S-Corp! They were all extremely…read moreknowledgeable, communicative and efficient. I continue to use them years on into my business with great success.

Ellie and her excellent team, especially Israel, did a superb job appealing our property tax…read morereappraisal and huge tax assessment! This is something they've done before, even getting a $20,000 refund for another client. I've used Laguna Legal since they were in Laguna Beach several decades ago: they are professional, easy to work with and economical. I can't recommend them enough!!

Ellie and her team at Laguna Legal have horrible service and communication. Emails and calls go…read moreunanswered, while unnecessary threats are made when you refuse to sign legal documents containing questionable template language. They charge a monthly fee and will purposely drag the case on for nearly 9 months just to make more money on top of their high fees. AVOID AT ALL COSTS as Laguna Legal is not a law firm. An attorney would be cheaper and faster, and will provide you with REAL legal advice rather than this scam of a business!

If I could give zero stars I would! The most unprofessional shady outfit I've ever had the…read moreunpleasant displeasure of doing business with. We dealt with Jim who never kept in contact with us and that we constantly had to chase down for information. He wanted his money up front tho. We waited weeks to find out the status on our trust amendments and when he finally got back to us, all he sent was a payment form. No correspondence whatsoever about the timeline as to when the changes would be completed. You can dress up this outfit in their posh high rise building but it doesn't take away from how unreliable and unprofessional they are. Please do yourself a favor, save your money and go elsewhere!

You don't always get what you pay for in terms of costing more equating to better service. I paid…read morethis law firm an exorbitant amount of money and was no better for it. A nice office, verbal semantics, useless information and ridiculous invoices is what I encountered. I had just lost my husband and had a sizable estate at the time of me enlisting their services. They were all to eager to "help",. Do your due diligence is all I have to say. Jill is great at putting on the charm.