Sierra Vista Vegetation Removal & Tree Service

Never ever do Business with Larry White, or his company Sierra Vista Vegetation Removal & Tree Service. I hired Larry and his crew in the latter part of 2018. I wanted him to clear a meadow on my property that had over-grown and I wanted to remove numerous trees around my house to reduce fire danger and open up a view. Let's start with the meadow. Larry had agreed to remove a bunch of logs. He also agreed to spray brush killer on the vegetation so the meadow would not quickly become overgrown again. Despite my numerous requests and his promises to do those things...he never did. He started to ignore my requests and he failed to return my messages and phone calls. The result was I had to hire a different company to remove the logs. Also, as expected, the brush in the meadow quickly grew back. I had to re-clear it again myself...and then ultimately...I had to hire another company to do it right. Next, was the removal of trees around my house and the opening up of a view. Again...just like the meadow...Larry and his crew never finished the job. After removing some trees, Larry told me that he was pulling his crew off of my job because he had some clients who needed help due to the wildfires that had ravaged the area. Under the circumstances...I told him that I understood. Little did I know that Larry would disappear for months!! Again...he failed to return phone calls and numerous messages. Again...I had to hire a different company to finish the job. They removed an additional 40 trees and did an excellent job. I had paid Larry a total of $2187.50 for the work he did. After ignoring me for many months...Larry reemerged and demanded that I pay him an additional $4500 or so. That took some major audacity! Naturally, I refused. Because of Larry's incompetence, negligence, and very poor quality of work...I was unnecessarily delayed for months...and I had to hire a different company to finish the job. A word to the wise..Larry charges by the hour. Never pay a company like Larry's by the hour. They will take their sweet and time and milk you for all they can. Pay a company by the job. That is what I did the second time around. They were fast...and they did an excellent job. (Simonis Tree Service).

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They do excellent work!!

Larry White, the owner, came out and knowledgably discussed my concerns and gave me a bid. His three wonderful staff, Jason, Ray and Ethan were here and started at 6:30 as scheduled and even started working when they could not wake me from my sleep. They gave me their plan for the Willows, and updated the ideas as they climbed up the very tall trees and could scope out things better. Their ideas resulted in some very nice looking trees, even with major parts of the trees removed and they showed me where the trees had already started to sprout new limbs. They helped me confirm what bushes and trees should come out since they were beautiful water hogs but not appropriate for this climate and I was using vast amounts of water to keep them breathing. Ray discussed some ideas I had about replacements. They do not do landscaping, or I would have asked for an estimate to modify my garden to make it extremely drought tolerant. The charge for 3 men, all day plus all chipping and hauling, etc was 1,325 which was very reasonable to me. I had used A-1 Tree Service to remove some other trees when I moved here in the beginning of the year which they did well and at a good price but I had to call them back to inject something in a tree to kill some fungus which had been part of the service. I had also indicated to the owner that I found the same fungus on other trees that I wanted treated. When I got the bill they said someone had been out and injected it but I wasn't there but assumed they had. The other trees were never addressed. However I just had to cut down the orignial tree they treated as it continued to die. In addition they gave me a recommendation on who might do the landscaping I need

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Very courteous and professional! Prompt arrival! Thanks for a job well done!