Allied Landscape Services

These crews violate Berkeley’s prohibition on gas-​powered leafblowers all over Berkeley. If you speak to them about it, they’ll still do it next time, and on other properties. Calling their company managers doesn’t have any effect, they just don’t care.

I live in an HOA were Allied has been our landscaper for several years. They do a great job! I can’t believe the previous posters my experiences with both the crew and office have been very professional and responsive.
When you are servicing several homeowners or tenants there will always be someone that is a complainer. Over all I think they are better than most landscape companies. If I were to move into another home with an HOA I would definitely suggest they try Allied Landscape.

I hate to put these guys on the map by even putting their info out there by being the first reviewer, but I have been so disappointed by their inability to get their workers to follow instructions I feel that I must.
This company maintains the Wells Fargo parking lot in West Berkeley which is just outside my apartment complex. Their workers have repeatedly used leaf blowers despite it being illegal in Berkeley. The sound wakes me up early, the fumes and dust blow into my open windows. The company had no idea their workers were doing this, they promised it would stop. And yet it continues. I’ve called the police, I’ve directly told the workers to stop at least half a dozen times, I’ve called the Allied office and reminded them of the problem several times, and yet the leaf blowing continues– just today, in fact. This problem has been unresolved for YEARS!
Moral of story, this company has workers that just don’t care about the law or the consideration of the neighbors. Maybe with a big company, it is impossible to make their workers care, I don’t know. Maybe they don’t pay their workers enough to care.
And on top of that, the guys do a mediocre job, always leaving bits of garbage. Quick and dirty would sum up their approach. They’ve also destroyed the pine trees by stripping out the interior of the trees and making severe heading cuts on the branches which is a no no for conifers. They may have certified arborists on staff, but they certainly aren’t sending them out to work on these trees!