RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! Woodchips motto should be, "another client another LIEN on a house"
I wouldn't recommend this company to my worst enemy. I found them because they left a flyer in my mailbox. We needed tree work done in our backyard and were looking for someone to help us with that. Rich Spoto the owner of this company came out to assess the property & the work that was needed - He clearly took note of some other things as well. I gave them a check in mid April for the deposit and they said within 2 weeks we should be good to schedule. 2 weeks came and went and I called back, their receptionist explained that it should be within a week that someone would be out there. By now, my deposit has been cashed for a month. I finally got so frustrated I called back and said quite frankly this is feeling like a scam, are you guys coming out or not? They finally came about 5 weeks after the check was cashed. We signed & discussed work for 2 days. Rich's worker put in a full 8 hours on the first day and shows up at 12:15pm on the 2nd day and worked until 5pm. So, given that we agreed on a 2 day contract & he only put in 5 hours on the 2nd day, we figured ok this guy is going to finish up the following day. He ends up coming again at 12pm and staying until 5. So at this point, he has worked 18 hours. We were ok with it even though it was over what we discussed because he did a good job and he did legitimately work 18 hours. Well, then I receive an updated contract to sign and Rich added on an entire 3rd day saying that they have documented 25 hours. I was shocked, I tried to explain the times and dates that his worker came, that we only discussed and signed a 2 day contract - because that's all we budgeted for and he sent back e-mails that barely made sense.
We explained we would absolutely be willing to pay for the 18 hours but 25 hours did not make any sense. We have text messages with he worker he had on-site asking where he was, passed 12pm on the second day.
It gets worse...
I then get an email telling me he is putting a LIEN on our property. Insanity! This guy is a complete scam artist. I've now seen a bunch of reviews that are stating he did the same thing to other people. He has fake reviews up on multiple companies that he has started, what a joke. He lost so much business, because there were 4 other people on my road that asked to pass his information on if we had a good experience.
Woodchips is so not worth the headache & there are so many other "construction" / tree removal companies out there. read more