Rivas Landscaping

It started pretty well. He drew up a plan, we selected plants, etc, and he was quite attentive. I signed a contract and was assured there was a one-year guarantee on all his work, including the plants. He also assured me he would come out in the spring or summer to check the work and fix whatever was needed. I should have become suspicious when, after I'd already paid him up front for half the job, he asked me to use my credit card to buy the landscaping stone. After that, he became much less professional. He was slow starting the job, delaying it several times before getting out here on a cold and snowy day. From there, it was really downhill. Many of the plants immediately died. The deer ate many more of the plants he'd assured me were appropriate for my location. He failed to complete the sprinkler system and it took several phone calls to get him out here to finish it. Then, of course, there were all the dead plants. First, he said the nursery wouldn't honor the guarantee that they'd live a year because they had frozen. Duh!!! Planted on a cold and snowy day and not deep enough. The top inch or two of the root ball was above the ground for quite a few of them. Then he simply quit returning telephone calls. So, today, seven months later, half the plants are dead or eaten to nubs, the sprinkler system that wasn't buried deep enough can be seen above the ground, and he won't return a call.