# B. Riley House, Cleveland OH: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/oh/cleveland/b-riley-house-cleveland-oh. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-09.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/oh/cleveland/b-riley-house-cleveland-oh

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## In short

B. Riley House is a halfway house in Cleveland, OH. Its AI Score is 53 of 100, which is fair.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Halfway house |
| Address | 2121 W 117th St, Cleveland, OH 44111, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Fri 9 AM to 5 PM · Sat to Sun 9 AM to 6 PM |
| Phone | (216) 417-4831 |
| Rating | 4.4 across 50 reviews on Google |
| Updated | September 9, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 2121 W 117th St, Cleveland, OH 44111, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Lgbtq+ SUD Recovery Housing | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Sat to Sun 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | B. Riley House | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (216) 417-4831 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | 2026 gala | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Admissions | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Admissions assistance | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Apply | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Donate | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Families | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | LGBTQ+ SUD recovery support | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Meetings | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Peer support meetings | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Recovery housing | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Resident rent payment | From their website | Business website |
| Links | Website | http://www.brileysoberhome.org/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 8 services B. Riley offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Donate |  |  |  | From their website |
| Families |  |  |  | From their website |
| 2026 gala |  |  |  | From their website |
| Resident rent payment |  |  |  | From their website |
| Admissions |  |  |  | From their website |
| Apply |  |  |  | From their website |
| Meetings |  |  |  | From their website |
| Recovery housing |  |  |  | From their website |


### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting B. Riley

Address: 2121 W 117th St, Cleveland, OH 44111, USA. Phone: (216) 417-4831. Hours: Mon to Fri 9 AM to 5 PM · Sat to Sun 9 AM to 6 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| W 117th St & Berea Rd | Bus stop | 2 min walk |
| W 117th St & Berea Rd | Transit station | 2 min walk |
| W 117th St & Berea Rd | Bus stop | 2 min walk |
| Penn Station Sandwiches | Sandwich shop | 2 min walk |
| W 117th St & Carbon Rd | Transit station | 3 min walk |
| W 117th St & Carbon Rd | Bus stop | 3 min walk |


## Reputation

4.4 average across 50 reviews: Google 50. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.)

B. Riley House stands out for its inclusive atmosphere and community support, though some residents seek more structured therapeutic guidance. (AI guess, from 50 reviews.)


### What people like

- Home-cooked meals fostering community
- Focus on LGBTQ+ inclusivity


### What people do not like

- Lack of structure in therapeutic guidance
- Building conditions described as decrepit
- Unresponsive front desk staff


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

Listed on 4 of the 21 directories we checked.

| Directory | Listed |
| --- | --- |
| Alignable | Listed |
| Angi | Not listed |
| Apple Maps | Not listed |
| BBB | Not listed |
| Birdeye | Not listed |
| Chamber of Commerce | Listed |
| Cylex | Not listed |
| Facebook | Listed |
| Foursquare | Not listed |
| Hotfrog | Not listed |
| Manta | Not listed |
| MapQuest | Listed |
| MerchantCircle | Not listed |
| Nextdoor | Not listed |
| Superpages | Not listed |
| Thumbtack | Not listed |
| Trustpilot | Not listed |
| Tupalo | Not listed |
| Yellowbook | Not listed |
| Yellow Pages | Not listed |
| Yelp | Not listed |


## Questions people ask


### how much is a first visit around here


### cancellation list here, is there one


### Calling B. Riley, or is there a better way?


### last update from here was when?


### where exactly is this place?


### best halfway house in Cleveland


### Why do people rate this place?


### first visit at B. Riley, what do I need to bring?


### which one, B. Riley or Jeff's Sober Living?


### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review?


### anything worth picking up at a house near Cleveland?


### opening hours at B. Riley in Cleveland, what are they these days?


### budget options in Cleveland, what is decent


### lunch near 117th, what is good


### Worth the hype at B. Riley?


### is there a rewards thing here


### What halfway house questions is Cleveland asking AI most?


## What AI gets wrong about B. Riley

We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about B. Riley. These are the answers that don’t match this page.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 20, 2026.

| Fact | What AI says | What this page says |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Address | ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 20, 2026: 2121 West 117th Street | 2121 W 117th St, Cleveland, OH 44111, USA |


## The AI Score: 53 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Cleveland halfway houses run 22 to 53. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. B. Riley scores 53. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | B. Riley |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 75 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Good |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 20 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 67 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 57 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 69 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 58 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a halfway house: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to B. Riley |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| B. Riley House | LocalBusiness | #business | http://www.brileysoberhome.org/ | Subject of this page |
| Cleveland, Ohio | City | #city |  | City B. Riley is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the halfway houses in Cleveland, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best halfway houses in Cleveland: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/cleveland/halfway-house
- Best businesses in Cleveland: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/cleveland


### Nearby

- /columbus: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/columbus
- /toledo: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/toledo
- /grove-city: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/grove-city
- /gahanna: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/gahanna
- /dublin: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/dublin
- /reynoldsburg: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh/reynoldsburg


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in Ohio: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/oh


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJT-rJjOjvMIgRCCekUJ2jQTw (accessed Sep 9, 2026)
- [2] brileysoberhome.org, https://www.brileysoberhome.org/rent-payment (accessed Sep 14, 2026)
- [3] brileysoberhome.org, https://www.brileysoberhome.org/cleveland-admissions (accessed Sep 14, 2026)
- [4] brileysoberhome.org, https://www.brileysoberhome.org/meetings (accessed Sep 14, 2026)
- [5] brileysoberhome.org, https://www.brileysoberhome.org/recovery-housing (accessed Sep 14, 2026)
- [6] brileysoberhome.org, https://www.brileysoberhome.org/gala (accessed Sep 14, 2026)
- [7] brileysoberhome.org, https://www.brileysoberhome.org/apply (accessed Sep 14, 2026)
- [8] brileysoberhome.org, https://www.brileysoberhome.org/donate (accessed Sep 14, 2026)
- [9] brileysoberhome.org, https://www.brileysoberhome.org/family (accessed Sep 14, 2026)
- [10] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 20, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 14, 2026)