creative arizona landscapes

Provided an email estimate (based on detailed scope of work and size I provided) for $280. Arrived an hour late (called ahead to say he'd be half hour late). The job was to clean up (trees, weeds, trimming, rake, blow, etc) an acre property. I should have been skeptical from the beginning when told he was coming a long way (he'd come and do the job, but not give an on site estimate), would be doing the job himself (no crew) and was a "professional who bills at $30/hr but it's worth it because he's fast and does good work". Of my acre property, maybe an eighth of it is the front yard, which he spent about 75% of the day on, raking, blowing, etc. He did trim a lot of weeds in the back yard, as well as a portion of a tree. The work he did do was fine, but a lot was left un-done. No mowing was done (the entire lot was grass, front and back). A lot of weeds were left (sprayed and left to die, but who's going to clean them up?). He borrowed a ladder of mine to trim a tall tree in the back yard, and left the ladder there instead of putting it away. He left his trash (foam drink cup) laying in the back yard, which my dogs found and shredded making a mess before I realized it. He blew all of the debris (leaves, dead grass, etc) out into my lawn and onto the street in front of the house and left it there, instead of cleaning it up. I'm expected to clean that up myself with the bagger on my mower. He did spend about a full day at the property working, and the front yard did look nice (other than the debris left on the street for someone else to clean up). But for $280, which is what was bid for the job, I expected everything to be done completely, front and back. Claiming you are a professional that deserves $30/hr because you work so fast can't be justified unless you are doing the work of 3 people. I've had similar sized properties before, and a job like this is normally done, for the same price or less, by a crew of 3-4 guys. My mistake for believing it would be completed. I had to pay another person to come out and spend the next day cleaning everything up that was left behind, bagging all the debris, etc. Had I gone with a company with the proper crew, I would have saved myself a lot of time and trouble. Jeremy may be great at some things like trimming trees or specialty work like that, but for a simple clean up job, a couple of $10 an hour guys are better suited to the task.