How in the world Reeser Lawn Care has five star reviews elsewhere is beyond me. I assumed it was a…read morelarge family business, and lesson learned on making an assumption, but from what I can gather after the fact, it's a young kid with a cellphone. That's the only number I see on Reeser Lawn Care's website and Google listing.
Oakley came out in October and gave me estimates on gutter cleaning, power washing, as well as lawn mowing while he was here. He wanted an exorbitant amount for mowing my small yard, so that was definitely a no go. Power washing estimate seemed high. I didn't have him perform that. The gutter estimate seemed somewhat reasonable.
Well, it would have been reasonable had the gutters been properly cleaned. I had Oakley come out about a month after the estimate to do my gutters in November after the leaves had fallen and before it got too cold. He climbed a ladder and used a leaf blower to blow everything out of the gutters all over my yard. He made a mess of my deck as well. I'd moved my furniture away from the gutters so he'd have room to work. He got my chairs and table filthy, debris down onto my patio and all over my yard. He even blew an outside ashtray all over the yard. "Well, I blew your walk off for you."
I'd complained while he was working. I reluctantly paid him. In hindsight, as soon as I heard the leaf blower, I should have halted the work and had him leave. I called him after he left to say I really wasn't happy with the mess he left behind. He said he was on his way to Rochester but would come back and rake up the yard. I never saw him or heard from him again.
Now that it's cold and snowed, a contractor pointed out that my gutters need to be cleaned because they're full of frozen water and could potentially damage my roof. So, they were indeed not cleaned despite his showing me on his camera the leaves were gone in one spot. He didn't rinse or flush the gutters, so I could see on his camera they had black filth inside. My downspouts have to be full and not functioning. And now it's not possible to do anything about it because it's too cold out with over a foot of snow, ice filled gutters, lots of icicles hanging down.
An absolute waste of a lot of money. A professional would hand scoop the gutters and flush them with water. I wouldn't want anyone else to get taken by this young boy. Never again for me! I completely got scammed. In future, I will be sure to ask anyone who does this sort of work to tell me their exact methods prior to hiring them.
