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    Business ProfileforKarlan's Curbs

    Addressing Plate Service
    BBB accredited business

    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    1.75/5stars

    Average of 4 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    1 complaints closed in last 3 years

    1 complaints closed in last 12 months

    BBB Rating & Accreditation

    Accredited Since: 7/18/2012

    Years in Business: 25

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    Overview

    address numbers painted on the curb facing street

    Business Details

    Location of This Business
    Bakersfield, CA 93304-7607
    BBB File Opened:
    7/17/2012
    Years in Business:
    25
    Business Started:
    1/1/1999
    Accredited Since:
    7/18/2012
    Type of Entity:
    Sole Proprietorship
    Business Management
    • Mr. Dean Karlan, Owner
    Contact Information

    Principal

    • Mr. Dean Karlan, Owner

    Customer Contact

    • Mr. Dean Karlan, Owner
    Additional Contact Information

    Email Addresses

    Customer Complaints

    1 Customer Complaints

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    Most Recent Customer Complaint

    04/20/2023

    Complaint Type:
    Service or Repair Issues
    Status:
    Resolved
    ******'s Curbs not only solicits their services door-to-door in areas that explicitly state "no soliciting", but solicits a service that disturbs and encroaches the civil and social safety of the community. This business offers a service where they repaint and/or add designs to street numbers that are located on a curb, highly visible to the public. The designs include, but are not limited to, flowers, the American flag, ribbons for cancer awareness, etc. They also, unfortunately, offer designs in which represent social movements like (per the flyer used to solicit) "Blue Stripe (Police Pride)". Assuming that this business offers design choices based in social movements, we contacted the owner, Dean ******, with the inquiry for other designs which promote social movements. The inquiry for a Black Lives Matter design was met with a personal opinion, which I assume represents his company. This opinion was that "all lives matter". While this design choice of "police pride" is protected speech, I find it disturbing and concerning that this business is openly soliciting this opinion and social movement, with complete disregard for other social movements. If the disregard and disagreement for other social movements are denounced by the owner/business, we (fellow neighbors) ask that he remove social movement designs from the flyer used to publicly solicit services. He should either only offer these designs per request, or decline any and all social movement designs. Our community is understanding of all perspectives and prospective opinions protected by First Amendment rights, but wish to no longer be solicited by this business, in which the owner's opinion teeter toward the infringement of the civil rights and safety of our community. All regards, and thank you.
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    4 Customer Reviews

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    Most Recent Customer Review

    kathryn m

    4 stars

    12/18/2023

    **************** came to our neighborhood about 2 weeks ago. We live in ********* on ********** Drive.He did an excellent job and the addresses look great !!!

    Karlan's Curbs Response

    12/23/2023

    thank you for the compliment. i very much appreciate it and all my customers

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