JBa Land Management, LLC

I contacted them with an issue and they arrived the next day. Replaced the bad controller I had and inspected and replaced the nonfunctional sprinkler heads. Will definitely use them again.

They did come out on time. They did what they said they would do but we haven't done the installation yet. I am not sure that I am going to do that project. It was a good price. They didn't seem as engaged. I was disappointed a little bit in their attitude. It might just have been that I was having a bad day or something. They did come when they said they would come. I would give them another shot.

Awesome job!! Very professional! Incredibly nice!

The designer came on a snowy/rainy day for the review and was undaunted by the weather, which was very kind. Approx. 3-4 weeks later, we met with him again and reviewed his renderings for our yard. We were pleased with his vision and how he had integrated our thoughts/ideas into the plan as well as offering some professional insights into the design. To date we have not implemented the plan but do intend to do that later this year & intend to use this designer/company.

Was very accommodating in my having to change the date of service several times. Arrived promptly and on-time and listened to my concerns and followed through with spreading the mulch as I wanted.

Very highly satisfied. They did an excellent job with very little mess.

In April we purchased several of the big deals to allow enough mulch to cover our flower beds in our front and back yards. They contacted me quickly after purchase and informed me that they would be doing all of the big deals in May when they had a slow week, and they would let me know later when that would be. They let me know in mid May that they would be coming the next day, and I said okay even though I knew I would not be able to be here. They came and applied the mulch and did a great job cleaning up after themselves. My driveway looked neater when they finished than before they started. My only complaint is that it was applied very deep and then there was not enough to cover the beds in the back yard as well. The mulch is 4 inches deep in areas, and that is is on top of the shallow layer we already had. I would have told them to put it on thinner if I was able to be present when they came. Overall I am happy and would use them again, I would just want to be present to be more clear on what I wanted.

I liked the drawing but it was out of my budget.

Came at the time discussed and placed the mulch as planned.

They arrived on schedule and meticulously placed 3 yards of mulch. As described in their promo, it was dark hardwood.

First, I had trouble scheduling the service after purchasing the Big Deal. I received no response for weeks when I tried to schedule a date. I was eventually told that the project manager that told me to contact him to schedule quit and took several people with him. However, customers should have been made aware of this. Once we got this issue out of the way, I was finally able to schedule. When I scheduled the service, I told the representative that I had several tall red tip photinias that needed to be trimmed. On the day of service, three men showed up and when I told them I wanted the photinias trimmed, they said they didn't have a ladder. I ended up providing the ladder. I was very impressed with the three men that showed up to work in that they were extremely nice and respectful. And frankly, it was nice to be able to communicate my landscape work needs without there being a language barrier, which is usually the case when it comes to landscaping work these days. I would say that the quality of the work was fair to good. I had them plant some grass plugs and I am somewhat concerned because the plugs didn't appear to be placed too deeply in the ground. When I watered the plugs the next day, several of them came up out of the ground. Also, one of my flower beds was cleaned out, and it may have been cleaned out too well. I will not know until later, but it looks like some of my dormant flowers may have been cleared out. I purchased 8 hours, but since it was 3 men, it was only 2.6 hours total and I had to purchase an additional 2 hours to get additional work done. That was an additional $300. However, I still had more work to be done and did not want to spend additional money beyond that that I had already spent.

4/19 - Purchase made along with suggested dates for service 4/20 - Provided acknowledge purchase and indicated they would get back to us when there were more people in our area 5/8 - Someone called to say someone would be in touch with us regarding scheduling an appointment 5/18 - Received email indicating they would be in our area on 5/26 to complete the mulch job 5/18 - Later in the day get email that they have had a cancellation and would be at our house to deliver the mulch. Responded back that I was not at home but my wife was, please discuss with her; provided her phone number 5/18 - in the pm evidently the crew showed up and talked to no one. They spread the mulch on about 1/2 the yard 5/19 - sent email to JBa asking what had happened and why someone had not contacted us before they left, as it appeared the job was unfinished. As of 5/31 have not heard back from anyone The area of the flower beds that were covered were neatly done. Dissatisfaction - delayed service, last minute notification they were coming, no contact while here, left without talking to anyone, have not returned requests for information. I did a rough estimate of what it would have cost me to cover the same area by myself with bags of hardwood mulch from Home Depot and I could probably have save myself $75-100. Basically this Angie's "Big Deal" was a loser for us.

They showed up on time. The mulch was what I requested. Left the yard clean. Excellent job.

Although I wanted to wait a bit more until later in the Spring, they called me twice to ask if I could please schedule, so I finally did. The scheduled day I took off work because I wanted to make sure all areas were covered. They did not show up on the scheduled day. They later called, apologized, and rescheduled, but on a day I could not be there. Although I described where I wanted the mulch, they started in the back yard and only had enough to complete about half of the front. They left it like that, with no mention to me. When I called, they offered to bring more if I paid for more. I feel they should have called me when they arrived to make sure they were covering the proper locations. I ended up buying more because I needed to complete the yard. They indicated they could not spread more that day because it was already spoken for for other clients. I understand that, but would have really appreciated a call while they were there, rather than me having to call. I would like to make a comment that is directed in general towards those service providers who have advertised "specials" via Angies List. Every time I have purchased the specials, the provider has been swamped, harried and the service is typically delayed. It appears the deals are so good they actually have TOO much business. Customer services tends to suffer the consequences.

They also made a follow-up call to check in and make sure that I was happy with the job. Great customer service!

They brought the landscape plan out a week or two ago. They come and did the site review a month ago and then I was gone. I found them on Angie’s List. I like the plan and I showed my regular landscaping guy the plan and he said it was an excellent plan and it should have cost me $400, he was surprised at the costs.

Initally I talked to Carlos on the phone and confirmed an appointment of March 26th. When I arrived home I saw that no one had been here. I called and asked why no one had been there. Carlos stated they ran late on other jobs and re-scheduled the appointment for the next day. 4 men showed up and worked for 2 hours. While performing the work someone broke one of my windows. I came home to a note on the front door indicating they broke the window. I called Carlos and asked who was going to fix the window. I was informed that it is up to me to find a company to fix the window and JBa Land Management, LLC will reimburse me. This was a Friday night so I cancelled my plans and spent the evening looking for a company to come and perform an emergency service call since this was a security issue. Eventually I talked to the general manager of JBa, Giuseppe. He told me that they were doing well because at least they admitted to breaking the window. He informed me that the guys could have just said the window was already broken when they got there. He acted as if they were doing me a favor by admitting their negligence. I feel the company has handled this matter unprofessionaly. I will not use the service again and do not recommend anyone to.

I would have given an A if I would have gotten what I asked for. When Carlo came by I asked him for a quote to weed my flower beds prior to the mulch being spread as well as some other yard work such as general cleaning up and adding sod to the backyard. He told me that the weeds would be fine, that the mulch should take care of them and they didn't need to pull the weeds. He took two weeks to get me the bid for the other work and did not even include weeding into the bid. During that two week period, the guys came by to spread the mulch just a few days after Carlo came by the first time and within two weeks of the mulch being laid, the weeds came back twice as bad as they were before and I had to waste an entire weekend weeding all my flower beds in the front (and I haven't even gotten around to weeding the back and side flower beds). When he gave me the bid, finally, that did not include the weeding, I asked him for another bid with that added in-about a week or two after the first bid. It took him another week to get the second bid back to me and by then the bid for the sod came in $300 more. I decided to just live with the mulching they did and do the rest of the work myself and wish I had done that in the first place since dealing with him was really a waste of time.

Everything went as planned but turned out to be better than expected. The crew was great and very professional. If I ever need anything "yard related", I will for sure use them again.

Mr. Carlo Baldi, Project Manager arrived timely, looked over the backyard area, discussed various alternatives and asked what I had in mind. Thereafter he spent time measuring and then advised he would prepare a detailed landscape plan for me. I also advised Carlo that I wanted to redo my deck expanding it with cement and flagstone, as well as reinforcing the wooden second floor deck. He referred me to a competent contractor that later visited and provided a wealth of good ideas. In early March, Carlo provided the landscape plan. It is to scale and well defined as to work to be done. It will make a beautiful backyard. I'm still reviewing the plants to be installed, but Carlo's idea of dry river bed will make the backyard a showplace and I fully intend to proceed with that part. I might do the plants myself, but I have not made a final decision on that as yet. On March 13th I was provided a revised plan per our discussions and detailed report containing costs involved to include offered discounts. I've shown the plan to friends and they're all impressed with the design as am I. Mr Baldi, The JBa Land Management company, came out and did an outstanding job. The presentation is superior in every way. I'm looking forward to working with this company and having a beautiful backyard. Gaining this outstanding insight is money well spent!

Excellent communication, quick scheduling and excellent job overall. Mulched entire yard in less than 2 hours overall and cleaned up afterwards. Highly Recommend.

Carlo was responsive, punctual, and did a great job. The price was right, and I'd definitely use his company again.

They did a great job and it turned out just the way I wanted it. Very good.

We spoke right away about this deal. I initially asked if he could come out in May. He said that he did these deals to keep his people busy in the winter. We scheduled this for the 19th. He waited until day before work was scheduled and called me to tell me I was outside his area and requested an additional $350 to come out here.

They called before they arrived at 10 AM on the day we had agreed to. I had purchased 3 of their $199 for 3 cubic yards of mulch. They turned out to be 88 bags of mulch. The work was done by a crew of 3 men headed by the driver, James. Carlos was the project manager and he arrived before the crew to check out what was going to be done. They did an excellent job and were done in about an hour and a half. The house looks much better with new mulch.