Integrity Landscape Management

I contacted this company (apparently just an owner, no employees) in March for an estimate to grade and sod part of my backyard. After carefully (but not carefully enough) considering all my bids, I hired him, even though the quote was higher than average and he could not begin work for a month. I was led to believe the quality would be the best, so I put up with the long start delay and enormous 2/3rds down payment request (yes, TWO THIRDS payment up front). The start date came. No work. Excuses began. It might rain, utilities were not marked yet, etc. Finally, two weeks later, a full day of grading work was performed on Monday. Then half a day on Tuesday. After that, nothing the rest of the week. The weather was fine. When I called and could get through, I got excuses about more delays. The next week, finally showed up again on Tuesday, mid-afternoon. Worked a few hours. More excuses about delays. Did not show up the rest of the week. Again, the weather was fine. On Saturday of this week, due to incompetence on his part, and having zero confidence in his ability to finish performing the work, and definitely not to finish in a timely fashion (already a MONTH in and nowhere close to completion), I fired him. So in summary, the project was quoted high, was very delayed, went very slowly, and due to claimed technical difficulties (not the least of which is he hired NO help), I was left with half-done grading and a huge bill. After figuring material expenses, labor charges were higher than most senior engineers' wages. The next week, I had a professional come out and finish grading in ONE DAY. Then sod installed a few days later. Avoid.