Verdict
carlavista.com is low-trust and potentially risky.
Several risk patterns were present. Do not send money or personal details until you have verified this business another way.
| What this site appears to be | Informational/corporate site for Carla Vista Sober Living offering residential recovery homes in several US states. Provides contact details, locations, information about program structure and benefits, and a contact form for inquiries. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | 1 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 16 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2011Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2011.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Carla Vista Sober Living Homes is an informational residential-recovery website presenting sober-living homes, recovery support, locations, program benefits, and an inquiry channel for prospective residents or referral partners. Its apparent business model is the operation and rental of structured recovery housing, with revenue derived from placement, housing, and related service fees.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
A confirmed external blacklist hit creates a material risk for sensitive interactions, despite the site's coherent presentation as a sober-living provider and the absence of observed login forms, credential-harvesting mechanisms, brand-impersonation indicators, or other page-level fraud features. The available evidence does not establish phishing or impersonation specifically, but the blacklist finding is a direct contradiction to the otherwise benign residential-recovery content and warrants treating the site as unsuitable for credentials, financial transactions, or disclosure of sensitive personal information. The site's domain is long-established, but domain longevity does not resolve the reputational contradiction or independently verify the operator's identity.
- The homepage identifies the service as “Carla Vista Sober Living Homes” and describes recovery housing, 12-step support, relapse-prevention benefits, and locations in Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, and Nevada.
- The contact page provides a telephone contact, mailing address, and a single general inquiry form; no login or password form was observed.
- External reputation telemetry records `external_blacklist: true`; separate checks recorded 1 malicious and 1 suspicious detection among 2 evaluated results.
- Domain registration telemetry records registration on 2010-03-31 and an age of 16.4 years, with GoDaddy.com, LLC as registrar.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents a residential recovery-housing service rather than a clearly identified regulated financial or investment business. Its legal and identity disclosures are insufficiently clear for independent confirmation of the operating entity, and no license, licensing authority, or registration number is stated in the supplied business-model evidence. That is a regulatory and transparency verification gap, not by itself proof of fraud; however, in combination with the confirmed blacklist finding, it materially limits confidence in engaging the operator. The available third-party broker dataset contains no matching record, but that is contextual information rather than a licensing or regulatory determination.
- The about and contact pages describe sober-living services, client agreements, program structure, and locations, but the supplied content does not identify a verified legal entity or licensing authority.
- The site's hosting telemetry records AS15169, operated by GOOGLE – Google LLC, US.
- The site's TLS certificate is DV-validated, issued by YR2, and valid to 2026-10-24.
- The available historical-registration evidence records a domain created on 2010-03-31 and expiring on 2027-03-31.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive engagement, an independent offline route should confirm that the named operator actually controls the listed homes and contact channels. The relevant state or local authorities should be checked for applicable sober-living, residential-recovery, housing, or business-registration requirements, with the legal entity name and address matched against official records. Any client agreement, placement fee, housing charge, refund term, or personal-data request should be reviewed directly with the operator and independently validated before execution.
- The our-homes page lists service locations across multiple US states and should be reconciled with independently obtained property and operating details.
- The contact page includes a client-agreement reference and an inquiry form, making the agreement and fee terms the relevant documents for pre-engagement review.
- The supplied page analysis found no sensitive form or password-collection mechanism, so verification should focus on operator control, service delivery, and payment terms rather than presumed credential harvesting.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated sensitive-interaction risk. The site's service presentation is internally coherent, but the confirmed reputational contradiction and unverified operator identity prevent a legitimacy conclusion strong enough to support normal account, payment, or sensitive-data engagement.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by a CDN/WAF layer, with the observed edge address hosted on AS15169 by GOOGLE – Google LLC in the United States; the origin server was not observable in the supplied infrastructure analysis. This infrastructure provides a meaningful exposure-mitigation control, but it is not evidence that the site operator is legitimate and cannot offset the external reputation finding.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate posture is limited, non-sensitive review while independent operator, regulatory, service, and payment checks are completed; sensitive data, credentials, and funds should not be committed until those checks produce consistent results.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership, analysis engine.
01 Governance Risk
- Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE - The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 25% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of carlavista.com.
- The request stayed on carlavista.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by domaincontrol.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-03-31. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-02-01. Clear
- It is hosted on GOOGLE, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | GOOGLE - Google LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 35.212.118.14 |
| Name servers | NS19.DOMAINCONTROL.COM, NS20.DOMAINCONTROL.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-24 |
| Domain age | 16.40 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-03-31 |
| Archive first seen | 2011-02-01 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 1 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about carlavista.com at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.