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Unfortunately, I also tried the others for a year each. First "Once a Year" rather so so and the lawn suffered a bit over the 3 years of good but a bit expensive service from Massey. Then I tried "Bates", the lawn not only suffered much worse than "Once a Year", when I complained, I got an attitude call back from Bob Bates himself.
Fortunately they sent out someone else a few days later to pleasantly explain that the dead and what looked like chewed out roots was not from bugs, but that it was my fault, the droughts fault and everyone was having the same problem.
I am now doing my own lawn and much happier with the results. When I called Bates and told them not to send me any bills, as I would not be renewing, they asked why. I said start with the poor service, follow it up with Bob's attitude, add in my damaged lawn and "Have a nice day".