Gracie the thread is good idea, it make separate the stealers from the dealers.
The most frequent problem shopping for services like landscaping is the home calls up say 3 companies.
They give a price but it's on 3 different verbal designs and items included, that's a great way to bid against yourself.
Beware of someone that will not sketch out what your getting.
Also ask up front if they get you ARC approval for the proposed work,
You should have one plan and shop that plan, if you're spending over $7500-10K you really should hire a landscape architect for about $750, shop that plan which will specify everything.
Construction additions similar to above, many say to each contractor I want to add a room on about this big how much.
Again you may not get your monies worth, a set of blue prints are required, the contractor will hire someone and add his markup and he works not for U but the contractor, bad idea.
U hire your own architect work on the design, shop that design, contractors are not designers.
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