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Originally Posted by The20Percent
After buying our new home in tv January of this year, we contracted with a well known lawn service company for both mowing and pest control. We have been away from the house since March. I received a call from one of the mowers a couple weeks ago informing me that our beds are now full of weeds and asked if I wanted him to pull them. I said yes and he said he would text me photos. I received the photo below (which does look like a lot of unruly grass in this one narrow bed) plus another photo of the large bed in the front of the house, which only had a few odd weeds growing here and there and didn't look bad at all. Along with this photo he said: "our normal price to maintain your beds would be $245 year. But since the back is so bad I would have to charge you an extra $150 time cleanup fee". I texted him back and said: "$150 seems very steep for one weeding. I would be willing to start your yearly weed service & pay the $245 if you start the service now. Not to mention you have only half the yard to mow now with our new pool added."
We did contract with T&D pools before leaving in March and now a large portion of our yard is full with a pool, concrete pad and bird cage. This saves our lawn mowing guys a lot of extra steps and therefore less time time with our yard now.
There was a final resolve to this story, but at this point I'm curious to hear opinions of what others in tv would say, or do, if they got this message from their lawn care provider.
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Weeds grow bigger, quicker and healthier here in Florida than anything you can imagine. I have a weeder (monthly retainer) and in the winter I bite my nails because there is nothing to weed, but once the heat and humidity set in those weeds have a life of their own. I was gone for 10 days and when I got back just the regular garden bushes had grown over the front path!
The house next door to me sold in April in a pristine condition, everything neatly trimmed and no weeds. Right now it is a jungle.
Try to find someone to weed by the month.