Low Integrity - won't complete job for agreed price.
I hired CH to remove 6 trees for a set price last summer. He took out all but one because his crew saw an owl in a tree and wanted to make sure it was not actively nesting.
We agreed to postpone the last tree until fall. This is from the text CH sent me: "$800 off the check had we will come back to cut it down when the owl is gone". Several weeks go by, we haven't seen any owls since they did the initial tree work, and I reach out to CH. He tells me he's putting me on the schedule, about 3 weeks out. 4 more weeks go by and I reach out to him again. No reply from that attempt.
I try 3 more times over the next week to get a hold of him and finally get a reply saying he's been busy and he claims one of my checks bounced for the stump grinding his brother did. He also says this via text: "I can't do the tree for $800 that was included as a bulk price with the others. We will do the tree but it will cost more."
I tell him he's mistaken about the check and that nobody ever reached out to me previously to tell me about any issues. Sure enough, it cleared the bank just as I expected. I received no apology and no more communication from him. It just smacked of an excuse why he didn't want to come back and finish the job.
Basically, CH quoted a set price for a group of tress, then knocked off some money to postpone it, but won't come back to do it for the agreed on price. The result is that the overall job will cost more money because now I need to find another company to come out and complete the job. Even if CH charged less than another company, I would not use him due to his lack of integrity. read more