On September 9, 2017, two days before hurricane Irma, A Sun State Trees removed a tree from my property at a very high price. However, I feared that the tree would fall onto my house during the storm and cause damage, so I paid. Then, during the tree removal process, the first piece cut off the top of the tree was REALLY BIG and when it came down, it swung around and actually HIT MY ROOF, making a hole in it!!! Thankfully it was not over an interior room but over the covered porch.(By the way, the irony wasn't lost on me that this is exactly what I was trying to avoid -- a hole in the roof from the hurricane -- but instead I GOT a hole in the roof from the tree removal company.)
They were very apologetic, and patched up the top side of the hole with some extra shingles I had. Because the damage wasn't putting me at risk inside the house, and since I knew they would have a lot of hurricane stuff to deal with after the storm passed, we agreed that I would be in touch after the hurricane passed, and that we would deal with the repairs then.
I gave them ample time, as in months, and let's fast forward to the new year ... I finally contact them again January 3, 2018. I spoke with an employee, Greg, who was shocked, apologetic, and assured me that he would have a repair team out to my house the following week to repair it. Since it was over the porch and not the interior of the house, I didn't even need to be there for them to repair it. Wonderful!
Except they never showed up.
A few more weeks passed, and I called again, this time speaking to another employee, Rose. She was very gracious, and assured me she would pass along my message to the owner, Randy. Unfortunately, I never heard from Randy, so I called AGAIN a week later, spoke with Rose, AGAIN, and she was even more apologetic this time, assuring me AGAIN that she would pass along the message to the owner.
That was two days ago. I still haven't heard anything, and now it's Friday and I don't anticipate getting a call over the weekend. I am clearly being ignored, and this is NOT the way a professional company treats its customers, especially those who paid a large chunk of cash, literally.
So basically at this point, here's where I am with Sun State Trees:
1) they overcharged me for the tree removal service because of the impending hurricane (you know, supply and demand and all that)
2) they damaged my property and put a hole in my roof
3) they lied to me, saying they'd send someone out to repair, but didn't
4) they ignored my repeated calls to have them rectify their error.
I'm calling Monday and if I don't have a reply by midweek, I will have to escalate this, which I don't want to do. I'm a yoga teacher and a nice person who believes in resolving things in the most peaceful way possible. All I want is for them to pay for me to have the damages repaired; at this point, I don't trust whomever they would send out to do the roof repair. I'd rather pay my trusted contractor who has done other work on the house, and have the tree company reimburse me for the cost of the repairs.
Just do the right thing A Sun State Trees: contact me, and pay me for the damages you did to my home. This is not how a business is run. read more