Conatser Landscaping

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Joe Conatser provided us with examples of his prior projects, and then provided us with a detailed drawing and plan for refreshing our yard.

Joe was great to work with.  Very easy to get a hold of and came up with a great design for our yard.  Then was very flexible to modify the plans as necessary to work with our budget.  Work was performed in a timely manner and the end results look great.

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I had several shrubs and flowers that needed to be trimmed.  The two man crew arrived on time, had everything they needed and did a great job.  They even fixed a long standing problem with a lending tree and trimmed a couple of trees.  I couldn't be more pleased with the quality of the work and my more polished looking yard.  Great investment! 

The service went fine. I was just disappointed because they would not be able to come out when I had wished and had to come out earlier than I wanted. I had them trim some bushes. Two landscapers came out and completed the work in about 3 and half hours. They were nice to work with and did a nice job cleaning up after themselves.

They did a fine job. Two landscapers came out for 4 hours. I had them edge the garden. They were very professional and polite. They left no mess behind and scheduling the deal was not a problem.

They did an excellent job. I had them trim bushes, pull out pushes and rake leaves. They met with me one day to look at what I wanted and came back out the next day to do the work. They did a little more work than they had to. The yard looked very nice after the service. I was not home while they did the service. They were punctual and scheduling was easy. They did a perfect job and I have no complaints.

Joe and his team did an excellent job to correct any misunderstanding and the work they do excelled my expectations.  It took a day and one half to complete this job and I have already had one complement from my neighbors!  Cannot wait to add flowers and a few other SMALL fillers.

Joe was easy to work with about what needed to be done and was also easy to schedule. The crew of two arrived and promptly did what was requested. It was not enough time to do all the leaf cleanup, but a good portion of it was done, and what was done was done very well.

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I could not be more disappointed and definitely feel like this company took advantage of me.
The deal was $200 for 8 hours with one landscaper or 4 hours with two landscapers.  I will give them credit for this; the response was within hours of the purchase. However, he refused to let his guys come when I am on vacation in March and could be there to give direction and insisted that it needed to be that coming week.  He blamed Angie's List for not including this in the listing; if it was in there, I don't recall it.  He would not do a weekend when I could be home.  Essentially, I was put on the spot and given to choices: take a vacation day from work to be home or just trust them to do it correctly in my absence.  In retrospect, I wish I had taken the vacation day.
I was extremely excited about this purchase and actually put a fair amount of effort into marking the various places around the yard where I wanted the sod removed, color coding it, and sending detailed directions via email.  I was completely caught off guard when I arrived home from work to find that all that had been done was one small area- about 1/4 of the area that I believed they would get done in the 4-8 hour window I paid for.  Not only did they neglect to remove all the sod, but the small patio area they actually did was neither dug down nor leveled.  I was sure that something had interrupted them or they were planning to return the next day, as this was clearly not more than 90 minutes of work for two landscapers.
Wrong.  When I contacted him about how little was done, he sent just a two sentence reply saying that he made no guarantees about what items would be completed in that window.  I followed up with multiple, detailed emails explaining exactly how little work was done by his crew and how unhappy I was.  No response.  I asked him to call me to discuss it. No response, no call.  Finally, I explained that clearly we were not going to see eye to eye on this, but I would like him to at least come see the job his crew performed personally so that he could at least tell me that he believed it was equivalent to four hours of work by two professional landscapers.  He not only didn't come to see it, but he wouldn't even reply to my requests for him to come. 
I have had multiple people with landscaping backgrounds - both amateur and professional - weigh in on the job that was done, and the general consensus is that it is inadequate.  Some have even laughed and commented that they could have done this amount of work ALONE in two hours; much less two professional landscapers in four hours.
I am completely dissatisfied by this experience; not just the insufficient work product, or the fact that they went to the wrong address on the day they were originally supposed to come, or the fact that they didn't use the equipment they said they were going to, but mostly by the complete lack of regard showed to me by Sam / Joe regarding my dissatisfaction and the way he just cut off all communication once he had my money in hand and a mediocre job performed.
I never heard from him again. 

Spoke with contractor and they couldn't fit us in within our time frame. Getting a refund on the deal.

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I would use them again in the future.

Joe does a great job! I would recommend to anyone looking for stone work or landscaping.

It was really good. He explained everything really well. He did a good job and cleaned up pretty well. The price was in the nature of where we wanted to pay.

Joe showed up on time and knocked out this project in a week. He dug down and put in a stone foundation. Then he built the corner of the wall and stacked his way up.