BG & CS

Recently ended yard cleanup services with Mark as he is unreliable: he shows up late or just doesn’t show. Too bad, he does a good job and his prices are great but when someone tells me there will be there on a certain day and time — be there!

I’ve never seen someone clean up a brambly, prickly and downright unusable back yard as well as Mark, for as good of a price. It is practically a miracle. Very nice guy as well, and gets the job done, no matter what it takes! We’ll be calling him again. He does other handyman stuff too — fencing, painting, just ask.

Mark returned my call promptly and was very professional. We are renters and don’t care a lot about our front yard, but someone complained to our landlord and we had to get some help (we have only broken lawn mowers). He was ready to come out the same day to give me an estimate and do the work but I wanted to shop around. After he assessed the sadly overgrown yard, he called with a very fair quote. We had him do the work and he cleaned up everything exactly as we asked and hauled the mess away. I would highly recommend him. Only one other gardener I contacted listed on Unilocal got back to me.

After the recent weeks of rain, our back lawn was so long that the neighbourhood cats were getting up to the hanky panky in our yard (apparently cats on heat likes long grass, and man they’re LOUD).
So the task was simple: find someone to mow that lawn and trim the bush back. After calling around half dozen places, we found Mark via Craigslist.
Mark is a super friendly fellow who does handyman work (gardening, hauling, painting, etc). He has all his own equipment and will even hurl your garden waste away.
I chose Mark because he had the lowest quote — around 50% of what was quoted at the other lawn care places. It was so low that I was skeptical but since we had little to lose, we gave Mark a try.
It turns out that he is just a guy out of luck, and was trying to under quote to get some work — ANY work, since it sounds like business has been very slow.
Mark honored the rate quoted when he arrived. And you know what? His work was good and now we have a nicely trimmed lawn and the neighbourhood cat gathering has moved on.
Along with the job well done, Mark return calls right away, give reasonable quotes, honors them and shows up to the appointment on time (even a little early). That is all I look for in a good handyman!
I highly recommend Mark’s work.