Rick has serviced our pool since we rented a house back around 2015 or so. When we bought our own home near Summerlin in 2017, we contacted him to service our pool in our new home and he agreed to come here. He's always done a great job to maintain these pools and has always been friendly and seemed to be very efficient too. Just lately in 2021 he says that he's been sick, he's not been doing very well. Recently my daughter in law noticed whenever he's here, she saw him just here, but not doing anything with the pool. I don't know what he was doing, he just wasn't working. This last weekend I was swimming in the pool and I told my husband, my son noticed too that the entire sides of the pool is a dark green, covered in algae! Now, I tell you.. that is just gross! It isn't right!! When I texted him this morning about the algae, he tried to say I didn't pay last month's bill, which either I haven't received it or I'm not sure what he's talking about. I handle our budget and always pay his bill, all our bills asap! He texted, he's ill and won't be coming over and we should find another to do our pool. I agreed and said we haven't been happy with his service for quite some time now. Unfortunately, this is true and we're sorry it came to this. But he really should have told us before now that he's not up to working with us. In fact, I recall that he had brought a man over awhile back. He said he was training him and we thought this person was going to help out whenever Rick wasn't up to the task. But we never saw him here that I can recall. Now that I think of it, we had to drain the pool last summer because of this same problem. The entire sides of the pool was covered in algae. Rick said he scraped as much off as he could and he charged us for that service. But the pool was still filthy, so my entire family had to get in there and do the rest of the job for him! He told my husband what to buy and he, my son, his step-son and his wife scrubbed the rest of the algae and crap off the pool walls! I also know there were times when my husband had to make runs to Walmart or Leslie's to buy Shock, which is a formula to dump into the pool whenever the water gets ugly. I've been told since by swimming pool professionals that we should not have had to do his work for him. I told them that my husband and I really liked Rick and had empathy for his situation. But now we feel Rick put us in an impossible position because he's causing us added expense as we've got to hire pool professionals to drain, blast the inside of the pool and who knows what other expense we'll face from his negligence! It's very unfortunate that Rick chose not to hire help but instead chose to pretend to to do the work at our house, causing us further cost and possible damage to our pool. It's a shame because we really liked Rick. We hope whatever is ailing him will soon be resolved. But we can't let our property value fall to pieces no matter what and he made it clear he doesn't want to be involved with us any longer. Now, I tell you, is it right to just let your customer's pool go to pot like this and then just quit the way he did?! I don't think anyone would like this type of treatment. read more