Smith Property Management

Description of Work: BEWARE, BEWARE, BEWARE AS OTHER REVIEWERS SAID!!!!!! Tony was supposed to be maintaining my lawn and was supposed to take care of the damages caused by his employees. I have been busy working and rearing a child as a single parent and that is why he has done my lawn for so long. I paid him monthly including the winter when there was nothing to be done. I did this because he included numerous items such as aerating, fertilizing, weed control, trimming shrubs and trees and etc.. in his initial proposal. He even mentioned that I paid him during the winter... later I asked what did he think when he picked that check up from under my door mat and did nothing. My lawn was in great condition except for a small problem with crab grass that I was tired of working on as well as the difficulty of rearing a child and working full time. I have stayed with him because of the promises he has make to take care of the damages and neglect...and of course the promise of grass instead of weeds year after year. Recently after talking with him one day about it and he told me a few lies and his worker was rude to me, I realized he was taking advantage of me and was never going to make good on his promises. The prior summer once again my yard was nothing but weeds to the point that his workers literally used a weed eater to just cut the long spindly weeds. The front yard was brick hard dirt. As I have many times, I asked him to please heavily aerate, fertilize, and sow seed as well as everything else that is usually done for lawn care in the fall. Well, Tony did none of that. He just threw some seed on that brick hard soil so all winter my front and side yard was just mud. After I decided to communicate on a weekly and then daily basis, I realized that he just didn't care and was was blatantly being a jerk. I asked him why he put seed on brick hard soil and he said he did not know. He threw up that he had put sod down on part of the yard..well he put it down on brick hard soil. I even asked him if he should have roughened the soil up but he said it would take. I did research online and proved to him that soil should be prepared prior to laying sod. He asked who told me that and said that maybe he should have let "him" do it. After telling him that I read it online, he responded, "exactly". ???? He also said that he had been doing it like that for 20 years. Earlier he mentioned that he made the person that sold the sod to him replace it???After that, I sent him four my articles about laying sod. He also trimmed my beautiful azaleas right before they bloomed. I waited year after year as they got more and more wiry and sad looking. All the time, with Tony saying he could fertilize them but HE NEVER DID. Now since January, I have been after him to get my grass in shape, make repairs to my fence, uncover or replace my irrigation heads and remove the huge tree stumps that resulted from neglecting shrubs. He had said he would get all of it done in a week...he has said he is meeting with the irrigation and fence guys. Also, he said that he was going to "do my lawn right this time"??? Well, he is trying a little harder, but Tony did not put pre-emergent down so I have to remind him every few days that the weeds are growing in various areas and suggest that he apply weed killer when it is not going to rain for a few days after. But... there are parts of my yard that is nothing but thatch and debris where he is not even attempting to sow grass... After I mentioned that I was going to have to resort to this, Tony said he was going to talk to his attorney the following day??? I responded, "That's great, please do and please do it tomorrow!" Like the previous reviewers said, If you want stress in your life, hire Tony Smith but if you don't BEWARE of how he has treated me. Oh yeah, he recently told me he had a 100 satisfied customers and I shamed him for taking advantage of me. I wrote the previous about a month ago in hope that Tony would come through with his promises but read on and you will see what happened and hopefully it will not happen to you. I could have added more pictures but I am letting it go except for pressing the SUBMIT button. As it turned out, I ended up taking Tony to court over damages to my fence and negligence in letting shrubs turn into trees. I asked for fence to be repaired/replaced, total yard renovation, and stumps to be removed. Well, I did not win because I did not have a professional with me to give an estimate of damages and costs to rectify it. I did not realize this. I had pictures of the negligence and damages but that is not enough. The literature that you are given reads that you cannot bring estimates so I thought the pictures and testimony would be enough. Just so you know, it is not and Tony lied his butt off under oath in court. Seriously about every word out of his mouth was a LIE. So if you get in a situation like this, make sure you have a professional with you that can give the judge an estimate. So if you are the kind of person, that is patient, nice and understanding (Tony's words when he thanked me one time when I brought the weeds and fence up) remember good guys finish last. But like I said, my error was not having a professional with me to give the judge an estimate. And don't let his sweet talk, as a neighbor calls it, persuade you to keep him on board. Don't fall for that cheap estimate.

Description of Work: -Remove and plant the bushes on the sides - put the soil on the front tress -Cut the branches in the front yard - mulch the sides -Put the stones around the tree on a corner

Description of Work: They were supposed to fell and remove 12 trees plus yard clean up and debris removal.