We hired Anthony based on a recommendation from a neighbor. The entire experience of working with him was a stressful disaster from beginning to end. I was hesitant and didn't want to work with him when he said he only accepted cash app as a payment method. I should not have ignored that red flag. He was extremely pushy that we pay him on time according to the contract but he didn't actually do the work according to what we agreed. The first day of work on 12/16 went relatively well. He promised to be here early on the second day then later told us he doesn't work on Sundays. He showed up very late in the day most days and made his crew work past dark because of his poor time management, which seems very unsafe.
He dropped a tree limb on one of his chainsaws which was 100% his fault, but he used that to keep trying to guilt us into giving him more money. When the crane truck came to remove the tree limbs and body Anthony said he was out of money to pay the truck and had the owner of the crane truck company call and tell us that he would dump everything back in our yard if we didn't give them the rest of the money now.
He destroyed our brick retaining flower bed/wall, damaged our driveway in multiple places, He personally insulted my wife and said he was only willing to talk to the husband when she told him she just needed a timeline of when the work would be done because he had not shown up by 3pm on that day, but kept saying he would finish the work that day.
Starting on 1/18 he would say he was going to get the work finished each day. He said he was going to get the stump grinder out on 12/22 - 12/22. On 12/26, he said he had scheduled someone to come out on 12/28. Nobody ever showed up, and he refused to us the name of the company he sub-contracted to do the stump grinding or give us any info about them. He never returned to our property after 12/23.
We had to pay to finish the job because he walked off. He left our yard in ruins, destroyed a large brick flower bed, and cracked our driveway in several places.
We have already filed a claim against his insurance and pending the results of that, we are considering taking him to court. read more
