Do not do business with this company! Mr. S* will promise anything but then do a hack job. When you object, he will lose his temper and be personally abusive.
On 11-17-22, Mr. S* of All States Tree Care to my door saying he needed to keep his crew busy. He contracted to remove a dead oak approx. 100ft high, with other minor work thrown in for "free".
Due to proximity to the house and septic system (which I pointed out in detail), he agreed that the oak would be taken down in sections until 20ft or so remained, and dropped in a clearing. This would be a lot of extra work, so I agreed to an extra $2500 (based on what I had paid to have a similar tree dropped intact last year).
He did not meet his contract. There was no attempt to section and lower the trunk. The entire 100ft trunk was dropped directly across the septic system! At that time, he apologized saying, "My fault, I didn't supervise my crew, and they aren't very good", and even signed a statement admitting what happened.
While pushing the sale, Mr. S* repeatedly said he would not need any money until the job was completely done. Yet that first evening, with tons of wood still to cut up and haul away, he wrote on the contract a partial payment and tried to get me to sign it. He was pushy, saying they'd leave their truck overnight, I guess like security. I refused, he angrily crossed it out and didn't leave the truck after all.
The second day, I noticed his crew taking more short cuts and spoke with Mr. S* about them. The worse was driving his truck across my neighbor's yard without permission, when he had contracted to move the wood by cart to my driveway. He began swearing and insulting me so much other members of his crew came over to intercede.
Finally, Mr. S* presented his bill in full, and I protested that he had not done the work promised. He said, "Quite being picky - the tree's gone so you got what you wanted," then again became personally insulting. Finally, my wife wrote a check to get him to leave. read more
