A & H Landscaping

DESCRIPTION OF WORK
We used A&H Landscape to renovate our frontyard and install some stone edging. We immediately received "Yard of the Month". The crew was Hispanice but the owner was highly visilbe and very responsive to all our needs and calls. They installed a couple ornamental trees, one Live Oak and installed new soil, mulch and a couple large Moss Boulders

DESCRIPTION OF WORK
This was to be a 3 stage job and required 1/2 down to begin. Since I knew the man who referred the Landscaper to me I decided to pay in full with the American Express card. His unsupervised employees left junk and unused material I had purchased on my front curb for the 1st stage which was the weekend he decided to go to a baseball game.  I live in a nice neighborhood so this was unacceptable. Also one of his workers brought a 3 year old child with him running around my property and under my Ash tree that they were trimming.  I objected to this several times because if anything were to happen to that poor child; I would've been held responsible. They kept the child in the car for the day in a dirty diaper and I would bring toys, stuffed animals, drinks and snacks for him. I was appalled! He would constantly say he would be in around "ish" time; 9 ish, 10 ish, 11 ish or 1 ish and resented that I expected to be on a schedule. He was rarely here to do any supervision; the crew did a good job at what I wanted and I supervised the best I could but I don't speak spanish very well. He also left hundreds of dollars of soil and plants and shrubs unplanted unsecured and unattended all over my front lawn overnight. When I called him the following morning and  objected to this he called me an "%$# %#%@" and told me if I didn't like the way he did things I could plant them myself. I explained to him that I had paid in full for these materials and he stated that was my problem and that: "you never pay a contractor in full".  I explained to him that if he did not complete this contract that I was going to dispute the charges with American Express.  The work was finished that day. I should have never gone through this and hope that when anyone wants to start a project like this that they use Angie's List to help in the decision making process.