Maple Leaf Landscaping & Design LLC

I had a proposal, I had a contract, and a warranty. Within the first year of the warranty, the complete landscape project fell apart. They would not honor the damages. I had to take them to court, it took three years in court and it cost me over $50,000 to take him to court and he gave me $15,000. He lied through his deposition. I live on the water and he said that the water rose 15 feet above the flood stage which, was a lie. It never rose above my dock. He blamed the entire landscape failure on the rain. I am disassembling it by hand because, it cost me materials. It cost $86,000 for labor. It costed me $2800 for materials. I was multiple billed on numerous things. I got billed for four fire pits. I paid $10000 for an engineer to come out here and drill a hole to find out what was wrong with it. He stated about 30 different problems that were pinned directly to the landscaper and things they did not do. They did not put pins in. I bought 2500 blocks and I bought 3000 pins. Each block has two holes in them, so some of the blocks didn't have pins, they just stacked the blocks on top of each other. Now that I am taking it apart, I am seeing more stuff that he lied about. As people look at it, he was in business for 25 years, he was the best of the valley in 2008. He had never done this on a hill and he didn't use an engineer. They have a designer with no degree. It's been a horrible experience. The whole project was $120,000 out of my pocket, then $50,000 for the lawyer, and I get 15 back. Now, I'm stuck fixing it, I can't fix it, and I can't afford it. I'm a single mom, with four handicap kids, I'm a foster mom, I am manually removing all this stuff by hand because, it was going to cost $20,000 to remove it. It's going to take my house down the hill. It's settling, he pitched it towards my house, so when it rains, the water comes towards the house. It upsets me, even going to court and paying all that money. He's in operation and that's all that I got back. They were supposed to give me a brochure on what to do if I don't like what they do. They didn't give me the brochure, right to secure. I haven't had my backyard since 2009. It snowed and as soon as the snow left, it fell apart. The walls fell down, the drainage wasn't right. My hill split, we had to take the pillars out of the water and chop them up one piece at a time because, they are glued together. The steps buckled and I couldn't get my kids down there. That's why I built it. I couldn't even get the kids to the boat. If you go to their website, there are a lot of bad reviews on there. I loss so bad. I don't know how they got away with this. I got another bid from a company that will do it for $450,000 because they messed my hill up so bad. I'm out $200,000. I have to fix this if I ever want to sell or don't want my basement to flood. He was doing it cheaper, we made him stick to the bid and he didn't like it. When he did the work, it was fair. They were punctual while doing the job. He showed up on the job and didn't say anything about their work. He never told them that it was wrong. They do work on a flat surface. He did say in court that they treated it like any other job.