When we first reached out to the owner, Saul, he quoted my husband $100 for our pool and spa, but first he needed to come by to take a look at our pool to confirm. He came over and already started cleaning our pool and then told us it would be $115/mo. because he said he "didn't know we had a spa also" and that he would charge us for the cleaning he just did which we didn't know he was going to do. He was just supposed to take a look and give us a confirmed estimate/proposal. My husband didn't like that he "snuck in" a cleaning and that he lied about not knowing we had a spa. So we were going to go with someone else that quoted us the same price for our pool AND spa but when he talked to Saul he told us he didn't intend to be sneaky about the cleaning or price so he said he would still charge $100/mo. We also had a broken creepy crawler that we needed to replace or buy a different pool vacuum. Since Saul needed to use his own vacuum, he would need to charge us $115/mo., but said he would give us time to purchase our new pool vacuum before he would raise the price to $115/mo. In 2 months we still couldn't purchase a new pool vacuum or new creepy crawler so we communicated that to Saul and said he can just start charging us the $115/mo. He told my husband he "appreciated us communicating that and being honest." The following week he didn't show up to clean our pool and then again the week after, so my husband reached out to him to make sure everything was okay. His response was: "I'm going to have to cancel service. Right now I can't really take any pools that are going to give me a lot of trouble - equipment wise and how dirty they are...don't get me wrong, I deal with dirty pools all day, but when the equipment can't handle it, it makes my job hard..." So my husband replied with, "Oh wow, thanks for the heads up."
Saul then replied with, "thanks for the heads up on getting the creepy crawler, instead you got a new doorbell, great priorities"
Saul the owner, apparently rang our "new fancy doorbell" (which might I add, doesn't actually work otherwise, we would have answered and talked to him in person AND our new doorbell was a gift from my in-laws 2 Christmases ago!! *which they tried to install themselves) This is why I never saw Saul come by, because our "new doorbell" doesn't even work! He didn't even try and knock or call or text(which he normally texted my husband EVERY TIME HE CAME OR COULDN'T COME). Instead he ASSUMED we bought a new fancy doorbell instead of a vacuum/creepy crawler for our pool! Assuming that just makes him look rude and ignorant and frankly is really none of his business whether we got a new doorbell or not! I shouldn't have to explain to anyone that we didn't spend our own money to buy a new doorbell or explain if we did spend our money on something! We had open communication with him about still not being able to get a new pool vacuum and he obviously lied about being okay with still using his own and charging us more. I wouldn't trust him further than I can throw him. We should have gone with our gut in the first place when he seemed untrustworthy. If you're looking for a reputable pool company, RUN FROM THIS ONE! I only gave 1 star because it's required. read more