Carters Yard Care and Landscaping

In his Craig’s list add he has planting as one of the the things he does (his many, many, many ads that overlap so I can’t seem to find anyone else). I called and he couldn’t understand me until 4 times later and then said they do not do planting. Yikes stay away!

So… I guess the cautionary tale to this review is get multiple estimates and be cautious of people who post multiple times for services on craigslist.
I should’ve known better, but the husband is out of town, and the yard and weeds had gotten unruly. I called on a Friday for an estimate. He called back, and actually came over in ½hr, which was great. During the walk through he told me the front would be $ 35…now the lawn isn’t that crazy, but he said that’s what it’s be for the first time and afterward $ 18. Ok. Not too thrilled, considering our last lawn people charged $ 20 and did our neighbors small patch (when I inquired what it would cost to do her lawn he actually said $ 18…it is sooo small. I was shocked).
We walked down the driveway, where most of the weeds are-​I told him I wanted it weeded. And heres the BIG DISAPPOINTMENT… I showed him what I wanted done-​weeding (which obviously means something entirely different here) and some flowers not to cut. Wanna guess what happened? Because I wanted the yard nice for the husband when he got home I told him to come and got all excited that he was available Saturday. First, he was late 1.5hr, then, he WEED-​WHACKED the weeds-​nothing was pulled-I’m left with green blobs of weeds up and down the driveway. English is not his native tongue, but even he made a comment about «pulling» up, but yet when it came to the actually work, the was not puling whatsoever-​just whacking. And to add insult to injury he told me to get some weedkiller. WTF?!? AND… my pretty little orange wild flowers he whacked. He killed them. Completely oblivious. I’m still pissed about that. He acted like he was doing me a favor, and I’m like-​you saw what you were going to do yesterday, and now he saying get weedkiller and acting like you did me some big favor?!? It was $ 110 for a small front yard, and weedwhacking; the yard looked good, there was an area behind the garage-​which I told him to do-​but then he said «oh, I did this for no charge”-that was irritating. I had told him to do it to begin with. Again-​kind of a cocky attitude. The one thing I really wanted done-​weeding-​was abysmal and wholely disappointing. Yet its the second thing listed that he does on CL.
Don’t ever be in a hurry or eager for your lawncare; I am so disappointed and frustrated. Not worth the $$$. I wrote this because it says he’s been in business since 2001 but there’s no reviews anywhere. Just be aware that weeding, is weedwhacking. The lawn and trim is nice, but for the price… time to go back to the Garcia boys…