I got their flyer in the mail. It was for $17 for any lawn the first time. That's really cheap!! Normally, I pay anwhere from $30 to $45. When I first called them, they were very friendly and said that subsequent yard work would be $27. This is still very cheap. They would also bill me, so I don't have to be here to pay them. After they came and left and I had called the office to see what the confusion was, but didn't get an answer, I called the office back later and told the receptionist about the crew saying that they don't bag. She was surprised. I told her that she should know that and she agreed. I'm not sure why they left without completing the job. It was either a confusion or they decided that they didn't want to go to the trouble of bagging by using their blowers. Hopefully, they don't charge me anything for this. They were probably here for only 5 minutes at most. Now that I see they have an F on Angies List, I'm glad that they didn't finish their work and just left. I wish that I had seen their rating before I called them in the first place.
Description of Work: Crew came out to mow, edge and blow. The started mowing when my significant other, who was home, realized that they weren't bagging the grass, which was requested. She stopped them after they had started edging along the driveway and had started mowing a couple of strips. She called me at the office. I called the Hillview office to ask them what the confusion was about bagging the grass, but no one was there. I left a message. I talked to the crew leader and he said that their mowers could not bag, but the owner said they could still bag using their blowers, but it would be an additional $3/bag. I said go ahead and mow and bag up to 5 bags. I said that I would pay the additional amount of $3/bag. He said ok. However, instead of continuing to complete the job as expected. He just left. When I came home I saw that the little work that they had done was very crude. The edging was not done with an edger and it was way too angled into the yard. Also, it looked like they had blown grass into the flower beds. They were supposed to be using a mulching mower, so I was surprised that the grass was in the flower bed.
Rating Category
Rating out of 5
quality
2.0
value
5.0
professionalism
3.0
responsiveness
4.0
punctuality
5.0
Erin B.
10/2008
1.0
lawn service
+ -1 more
Mowing services were adequate (not the best lawn care company I've ever used). Calls to the owner go to an answering service and are rarely returned, although he regularly advertises additional services. Twice I have had services added to my bill which (a) were not requested by me, and (b) were not performed. The first time (over $50 for fertilizer) was removed from my bill after a few phone calls. The second time was after Hurricane Ike, when Hillview added $87 to my bill for unrequested and unnecessary services that were also not performed-the item was listed as a labor charge for "Hurricane Ike clean up." Two calls to the owner regarding this charge were not returned. I sent him a letter to cancel service and still have not heard back, although I did receive a promotional mailing this week advertising lawn care services at $18/lawn ($12 less than I paid before) and a different telephone number for the same company.
Description of Work: I hired this company to mow my lawn twice a month at $30 per mow.
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Service Categories
Lawn and Yard Work,
Stone and Gravel,
Lighting,
Lawn Fertilization & Treatment,
Lawn Irrigation,
Landscaping,
Excavating
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HILLVIEW LANDSCAPING INC is currently rated 1.5 overall out of 5.
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