Overcharged: $400 for 90 min weeding. Just stopped before finishing
2 years ago I hired Hailey and Mike to help me with yard work. I am a retired teacher and a senior citizen, so I look carefully for whom I get for my jobs.
They were hard workers in the first year as they were full of ambition. Mike did the harder digging and moving kinds of work, while Hailey was excellent at weeding and maintaining my flower beds. I had perennials, and they did a good job working around them.
Last year I had them get a load of mulch, and they spread that and dug up weeds and other growths. I have a stump that sends off suckers, and I'm obsessed with getting those dug up. I've paid them between $300-$600 for the work they've done.
This year, however, there has been a decline. I had been come to weed my
yard at the end of May and hard rake the main part of my front lawn. We tentatively set the weeding at $300 and then he said $100 for the raking. Mike did the raking and a good job. However, since I was able to see the job being done, I could see he was hot and kept stopping. Finally he said that $400 wasn't enough for all that work. Meanwhile Hailey weeded the entranceway, which has lots of perennials and not many actual weeds. She had a little pile of debris.
Next thing I know there seemed to be a question about what exactly I
had asked them to do, so I got my text back and showed him. Oh I guess I didn't remember that he said. She ended up with about 1/4 of a garbage bag of debris and then said they were done. 90 minutes total for $400, yet he wanted to charge more. Since I am on a walker and trusted them from previous jobs, I assumed they did what I had requested in the past.
What happened was they just stopped. None of those stump suckers were dug up, weeds were ignored, the little front bushes weren't trimmed, and they had done $200 worth of work. Granted I
Should have gone out and double checked, but I assumed they weeded and did what had been done the other 3 times. When I texted and complained, he more or less said that they had done a good job, yet the proof was right there.
DO NOT HIRE THESE TWO. THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT THE MONEY AND LEAVING AS SOON AS THEY CAN. $400 cash for 90 minutes work.
I hope they feel good about cheating a senior on a walker who trusted them to do the same level of work they had done in previous jobs. read more