California Real Estate Investor Directory

41198 providers listed in California, with county detail recorded in 13 counties. Updated November 14, 2026. Pair with California real estate lead lists to work the same counties.

California providers by category

California counties covered

  • Alameda County
  • Los Angeles
  • Los Angeles County
  • Orange County
  • Riverside
  • Sacramento County
  • San Bernardino
  • San Diego County
  • San Francisco County
  • San Joaquin County
  • Santa Clara County
  • Solano County
  • Yolo County

Counties are listed for providers who supplied one. Providers without a county still appear in the list below.

California providers

  • Friar's Plumbing, Heating, and AC Repair Chula Vista, CA Contractors
    Plumbing, heating and AC repair company listing a Chula Vista address (1813 Jackson St) and advertising 24-hour service and same-day furnace repair.
  • Frontline Roofing Lake Elsinore, CA Contractors
    Lake Elsinore roofing contractor in business since 2007 that serves Temecula.
  • G&S Junk Removal Pasadena, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Says it is licensed and insured, serves Los Angeles County, and offers a satisfaction guarantee.
  • G West Roofing San Jose, CA Contractors
    San Jose roofing company listed at 591 Curie Dr. It does residential and commercial roofing work.
  • Gardner Plumbing Co. Murrieta, CA Contractors
    Family-owned plumbing company with a Murrieta office, serving Riverside County for 30+ years and advertising free in-home estimates.
  • Gatewood Insurance Agency Inc. San Jose, CA Advisors
    San Jose agency at 1095 Bird Avenue with a home insurance page for South Bay areas.
  • Gayler Design Build Walnut Creek, CA Contractors
    Family-run design-build firm founded in 1961 that remodels kitchens, bathrooms and additions in Walnut Creek.
  • Genius Electric Corp Lancaster, CA Contractors
    Owner-operated Lancaster electrical company advertising 24-hour service and serving Palmdale.
  • Gerro Properties (Apartments in Burbank) Burbank, CA Property Management
    Burbank firm established in 1974 that offers real estate services and property management and markets its own apartment communities in Burbank.
  • Glen Oaks Escrow Glendale, CA Closing Services
    Independent escrow company headquartered in Glendale with branch offices in Pasadena, San Marino, Beverly Hills, Valencia and Laguna Niguel, among others.
  • Glendale Elite Hardwood Flooring Glendale, CA Contractors
    Hardwood flooring contractor at 1106 South Central Avenue in Glendale. Its site lists a contractor license number and a Pasadena floor restoration page.
  • GM Funding San Clemente, CA Lenders & Hard Money
    Licensed mortgage broker operating from a San Clemente office.
  • Gold Coast Insurance Oxnard, CA Advisors
    Independent agency in downtown Oxnard writing homeowners coverage for Ventura County property owners.
  • Golden State Inspections Sacramento, CA Advisors
    Sacramento-based home inspection company serving Elk Grove, Folsom and Roseville.
  • Gomez Diaz Roofing Inc. Stockton, CA Contractors
    Roofing company with an address at 2456 E Washington St in Stockton.
  • Good Life Property Management San Diego, CA Property Management
    Residential property manager for houses, condos and small multi-family buildings with dedicated city pages across San Diego County. States it has operated in San Diego since 201...
  • Gordon Reese Design Build Walnut Creek, CA Contractors
    Family-owned design-build remodeling firm listing an address at 3021 Citrus Circle in Walnut Creek. The site says it has more than 42 years in business.
  • GR Air Conditioning Los Angeles, CA Contractors
    Residential and commercial HVAC company offering A/C and heating repair, tune-ups and HVAC installation, with 24/7 emergency repair advertised.
  • Green Design and Build Van Nuys, CA Contractors
    General contractor installing hardwood, luxury vinyl plank, tile, laminate and carpet; lists a CSLB license and free on-site estimates.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.
  • Green Planet Restoration of LA Chatsworth, CA Maintenance & Restoration
    Restoration company with an office at 9146 Owensmouth Ave in Chatsworth. It advertises 24/7 fire and smoke cleanup alongside water and mold work.

Showing 251–300 of 41198 California providers.

California punishes the investor who underwrites it like a cheap state. Contractor licensing is strictly enforced above a very low dollar threshold, the trustee-sale calendar is slower than the Sun Belt, and two rules written after 2020 — Proposition 19 and the statewide rent cap — change the maths on inherited property and on anything you intend to hold. All three are covered below.

The $500 rule: how California licenses contractors

California licenses contractors through the Contractors State License Board (CSLB), and the threshold is far lower than most states: a licence is generally required for any job where labour and materials together total $500 or more. That captures almost every rehab task you will ever order.

The classifications matter as much as the number. A B — General Building licence covers projects involving two or more unrelated trades; specialty C classifications cover single trades such as C-10 electrical, C-36 plumbing and C-20 HVAC. A B contractor taking on a single-trade job outside their classification is a licensing problem you inherit at resale.

Look the licence number up on the CSLB portal before you sign. Confirm the status is active, confirm the classification covers your scope, and confirm the bond and workers' compensation are current — CSLB publishes all of it. Verify requirements directly with CSLB; thresholds and classifications change.

Proposition 19 rewrote the maths on inherited California property

This is the change that catches investors working probate and pre-probate in California. Before 2021, a child could inherit a parent's property and keep the parent's low assessed value more or less indefinitely. Proposition 19 narrowed that sharply: the parent-child exclusion now generally applies only where the heir makes the property their principal residence, and even then the protection is capped rather than unlimited.

The practical consequence: an inherited rental or second home is far more likely to be reassessed to current market value, and the new property-tax bill can be multiples of the old one. Heirs who intended to hold frequently discover this after the fact — which is precisely why they sell. If you work California probate lists or pre-probate data, the reassessment shock is often the real motivation behind the call. Confirm any specific situation with a California attorney or the county assessor — this is orientation, not tax advice.

AB 1482: the rent cap that changes buy-and-hold underwriting

The Tenant Protection Act caps annual rent increases statewide at 5% plus local CPI, to a maximum of 10%, and imposes just-cause eviction requirements on covered properties. Some housing is exempt — newer construction and certain single-family homes where the required notice was given — and local ordinances in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland and elsewhere are stricter still.

If your model assumes you will buy an under-rented building and move rents to market in year one, check coverage before you contract. That single assumption is the most common error in out-of-state underwriting of California rentals. Verify current caps and exemptions with a California attorney; the statute and the local overlays both move.

A slower trustee sale than the Sun Belt

California foreclosures are overwhelmingly non-judicial trustee sales, but the timeline is longer than Arizona or Texas. A Notice of Default is recorded, a roughly three-month cure period runs, and then a Notice of Trustee Sale sets a date at least 21 days out — so the floor is around four months, and in practice postponements stretch it considerably further.

That longer runway is an advantage if you market to owners in default: pre-foreclosure lists hold their value longer here than in a fast non-judicial state, and the recorded foreclosure filings give you a workable window. Note also that California restricts deficiency judgments after a trustee sale, which shapes how borrowers behave. Confirm statutory detail with counsel.

Vetting a California contractor or agent: a short checklist

  • Check the CSLB licence number yourself. Active status, correct classification, current bond and workers' compensation — all of it is public.
  • Treat the $500 threshold as always met. If someone offers to work unlicensed because the job is small, the job is almost certainly not small enough.
  • On inherited property, get the assessor's reassessment position in writing before you model the hold.
  • Confirm rent-cap coverage and any local ordinance before underwriting a rent increase.
  • Pull the permit history on the address. Unpermitted additions are common and become your disclosure problem at resale.
  • Use a written draw schedule. Never fund ahead of completed work.

Get listed in the California directory

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California directory FAQs

Do I need a licensed contractor in California?

For practical purposes yes. CSLB requires a licence for work where labour and materials total $500 or more, which covers nearly all rehab scopes. Verify the licence number, its active status and its classification on the CSLB portal before hiring.

How does Proposition 19 affect inherited property?

Prop 19 narrowed the parent-child property tax exclusion. The low assessed value generally carries over only where the heir uses the property as a principal residence, and the protection is capped. Inherited rentals and second homes are far more likely to be reassessed to market value.

How long does a California foreclosure take?

Most are non-judicial trustee sales with a floor of roughly four months: a Notice of Default, a cure period of about three months, then a Notice of Trustee Sale at least 21 days before the sale. Postponements often extend it well beyond that.

Which California counties have the most investor activity?

Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego and Sacramento carry the most volume, with the Inland Empire counties offering the widest spread between acquisition cost and rent.

Are these agents and contractors screened by ListCentral?

We confirm business name, category and market before publishing. We do not verify licensing, insurance or work quality. Check credentials, insurance certificates and references yourself before hiring.

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