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Originally Posted by mtgjudge
Hi folks!
I just engaged a lawn service and he says he doesn't bill clients - but to just send the check for the month to his P.O. Box in advance. I thought this was odd as I used to having services rendered, being billed, and then paying for them. Is this payment arrangement peculiar to you, or is the customary in TV?
This person is being used by 2 different neighbors, so I reached out to him myself.
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The posts seem to have evolved off the original question. We have been in the villages for 8 going on 9 years. We have always paid the last week of the previous month for the following month. So essentially they are one month ahead. Paid in advance.
Reliable? In eight years, the first guy decided he didn't want to do it anymore. He recommended a nice young guy all went smooth. After a couple of years he just disappeared. He, as we paid in advance STOLE three weeks from us. We hired another guy, recommended by neighbors. Family issues? He just stopped coming. He too was a nice guy. We liked him. Work quality not as good as the first two but, good enough for me. I phoned him and he gave us a refund. We now have a forth guy in eight or nine years. Also a nice guy. Work quality probably the worst yet.
It may not sound like it but I am an easy customer. Stuff left behind, I just rake it up and say nothing.
I do the weeding. The pruning. The chemistry-fertilizer-fungicide-insecticide. This is the first time in my life that I hired someone to edge and mow. Perhaps, it is time to start that again.