I hired Zion this year for lawn services. He did some lawn treatments and also took care of the mowing. He was typically very reliable and I had no complaints. Eventually I began hiring him to do other landscaping at my property. Again, mostly reliable, maybe a nudge once in a while was needed. Fast forward to late August. I had asked if he could plant some shrubbery in my back yard. I had two shrubs in my front yard that I want transplanted along with a few new ones. He gave me an estimate of $550 for the entire job. On September 2, I agreed to the price and asked when he might be able to complete the work. His response was, "I can probably get it done this weekend". That did not happen. On September 11th he contacted me about sending him a 50% deposit so he could buy the new shrubs, said he was going to be at Burnett's and will pick them up. I thought that reasonable so I sent him $275 via Venmo. September 18th, still no work done. I contacted him and asked when he would be doing the planting. He responded, "coming this weekend to transplant. The ones I ordered won't be in until the 28th". Ok thanks. Thought he was picking them up but whatevrer.
It wasn't until September 26th when he actually showed to do the transplanting. He sent me a message saying "Plants are dug out and in, they sent me holly bushes by mistake so I sent back Monday. New plants will be in Tuesday". This was when he asked me for the $275 balance. I didn't think it was a big deal as I trusted him since he was my landscaper, so I sent the remaining $275 via Vemno on September 26th.
By October 6th, still had not seen any new shrubs. So, I reached out, no response. October 7th reached out again, no response. I can see he has read my messages. I reach out the next day, October 8th , and said I don't feel comfortable with what happening, you have all my money and now won't respond. I want my money back. He immediately responds, very apologetic saying he was in hospital and thought the work was done by his guy, but he will make sure the shrubs are in on Friday. I agreed that I would give him until Friday, but if for some reason he wouldn't be coming I would expect to be notified. He agreed. Well he never showed, never contacted me. So now he has the full amount and the work is not complete.
I sent him another message on that Saturday saying, Friday has come and gone and the shrubs aren't in and I was not contacted as promised. I want my money back. He read it, did not respond. I sent him a final message, saying that if I do not receive my money back by the end of the week I will be forced to take further action. Again, read it, no respond. So here I am to warn others, please be careful if you are looking to hire this company, something shady is happening and I would hate to see anyone else get swindled. I will also be contacting the better business bureau.