What an ordeal. Back and forth texting w/pics. Quoted $500-600. But, Larry wanted to discuss in person what we wanted done. (Not going Into the scheduling of appointments) Jeff finally shows. Really liked him. Quoted $800. Trim tree back, cut smaller tree down. A little too pricey. So, Jeff says he would trim the maple tree up plus clean up the trees/brush behind and around the shop against the fence. Made an agreement to pay him $800 CASH. Jeff came on a Thursday May 9th for the fact the camper would be out of the way. He didn't show until after 12. I passed him approx. 4:30 coming home from work. When I got home, I assumed he was going to come back the next day because of the rain. He showed back up about 6. I had to remind him of the other tree trimming and the clean up behind the shop. Against my better judgement, i took him at his word and "telling him" Larry said to pay him 1/2 until he finished. He said he would go ahead and finish since it was such a long drive. Borrowed our ladder(not the problem but see pic, didn't bother to put it back up) I told him he could come back whenever it quit raining, not a big deal. Then, he had trailer light issues. By this time it was after 8:00 PM. Dark and still raining. I told him to leave all of the wood and not to worry about it. Him and his 1 person help finally left. Larry was not happy with the pics I sent him. As we were dealing with Larry's dads declining health. I have made multiple texts to Jeff and his wife. calls with left messages to Jeff's phone.(oh and it wasn't working because it got rained on) we have given him every opportunity to make this right. His wife responded to my text and said she would make sure he would be here "the next day".. told that 2-3 times. Today is May 18. I haven't heard anything from him. Look at the pictures. This price was to include clean up and hauling off.
We have about +2 hours of clean up. I didn't realize what all was left undone because of it being dark & raining when they left. But he said he was going to come back. I have also been told this several times.
If you need your trees trimmed, we wouldn't recommend him.
When someone tells me they are going to do something, I expect them to keep their word and do it.
They tried to turn this around tone my fault but my dates and times add up, not theirs. I could post the text conversations I had with Jeff or his wife, but pictures tells enough. read more
