While Damien is a really nice guy, I warn you to stay away. I paid him for weekly yard service starting 5/3/21 until I fired him on 9/11/21. Here's the list of problems I experienced:
1. I asked him at least 4 times to please clean my curb from debris after he mows. He had all kinds of excuses as to why he didn't, i.e. I forgot, I forgot to move the truck so I could clean it, it was raining, oh, I forgot again. Finally after asking him the 5th time, he started doing it.
2. One day I came home and there were a lot of lawn clippings in my pool. I sent him a text and let him know. He responded and told me in an angry tone that it was too hot that day, it was hard to mow without getting the clippings in the pool and that he wasn't perfect. The next week he didn't mow near my pool at all and when I sent him a text and asked why he said because he didn't want to get clippings in the pool. I asked him if he was going to be able to mow without getting clippings in my pool and he said he could and it wasn't a problem from then on.
3. I paid him an extra $10/week to maintain my bushes and hedges. He promised to trim them once per month. I think he trimmed some the first week, but that was it.
4. In the middle of summer growth time, he took a three-week vacation which left my lawn so overgrown I was worried the HOA was going to call me.
5. The reason I finally got fed up and fired him was because he made a total mess out of my front yard edges creating large dirt trenches that filled with weeds. I told him not to edge for a month so I could see if the grass would grow back. After that month, the edges looked even worse because no grass had grown, yet more weeds filled the dirt ditches. I called my landscaper and he said that this was the work of an amateur and never should have happened and the only way to fix it was to re-sod all of the edges. My landscaper referred me to someone who could fix them as well as provide regular weekly lawn maintenance going forward. I fired Damien and then spent $660 to have my edges re-sodded and put back to the original condition prior to me hiring Damien. Here's some before and after pictures of the mess he made of my edges. Damien never apologized nor showed any remorse for what he did, thus I decided to write this review with the intent of keeping others from having this same type of experience. Too bad he couldn't have accepted responsibility and apologized, because if he had, I would never had written this review regardless of the problems.
The first four pictures shows what he did to my edges. The next five pictures shows what it took to fix them. read more