Simplified Landscaping

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I spoke with a nice receptionist over the phone and set up to have an estimate for some work to be done on my personal home and a rental property.  Steve showed up on time and gave me seperate (as I asked) but competative estimates for both.  I gave him the green light to start work and his guys (2) got to work about 3 days later.  They were great!  They had the right eqipment for the job and were always working while they were on my properties.  They cleared away weeds, pea gravel, rocks, bricks, small boulders, old railroad ties, and junk in general that my father had been accumulating for years and just keeping on the side of our house.  Then they laid down some Weed-Barrier-Fabric, planted some decorative low-maintenence plants, and placed some river rock in the front and some crushed gravel around the side of the house (and the rental property).  These areas look great now!  No more weeding!  No more constantly fighting with my tenants to weed!  The last thing they did was to replace an old pipe in our sprinkling system that had broken under our sidewalk.  All fixed without a hitch.

Daniel was the most responsive and flexible landscape representative with whom I've worked, and I've contacted several for projects since moving into a 60's era house three years ago. Neither he or I were fully satisfied with the work the crew did so Daniel spent time here the day after the workers had finished to ensure the grade was going to work on our property which is on the slop of a large hill, as well as worked on the roadbase to bring it closer to the outline he had drawn during our consultation. I have hired them for another project (concrete steps) which I hope will be completed before the weather makes it impossible this year. I will post another review when this work is completed.

I haven't heard any complaints. Other them being costly, I had some work done for my rental property and I haven't heard anything negative from the tenants, so I guess they did it okay. I thought about it, but it was just the attitude of I'll get back to you, you know, ever, and they just would just show up at the person's home without calling first.

I have contacted them and I am going to have them do my work but nothing has been started yet. I have already changed my mind on what I would like to get done so the estimate is going to change. I liked the estimate based on what the owner told me what he wanted to do. I had questions about what kind of stuff they were going to use so they met me and my daughter a week later and showed me stuff that they have done in other places. Their estimate was reasonable based on a couple of other bids that I had got and they had much more of a feel of what I wanted to get done. I started this work I had no idea how expensive landscaping would be. I was very pleased with them. It is going to be extensive work but they may have subcontractors that they might use; it is always going to be in their scope and they are going to be overseeing it. I decided to go with them because of their vision of what they wanted to do. When they were in the backyard with me looking at what there is right now which is just got the embankment and it's just a straight line across they suggested that it would look much nicer if there were a few little curves in there. Their suggestions for the patio showed that they had a vision of what they wanted to do whereas the two other people that gave me bids would have done the work but did not have any ideas like them. They were very nice when I went to meet him with my daughter. They took their time and were very helpful.

We got several bids to landscape our backyard. The owner Leif came out and provided a bid that 50% lower then the most outragious bid but a little higher then some others. Leif was flexible on some work we were going to do ourselves to save costs and we had seen previous work his crews did and decided to go with him.
We were a little nervouse as we were going to be out of town while the work was done but Leif kept us informed with texts and photos of the work to ensure we were happy with what he was doing. In the end the back yard turned out beautifully and and all of the work is high quality.
A list of things Simplified Landscaping did great without prompting:
Proper gravel under the cement pads.
Zoned the sprinkler system properly.
Tied the cement pads to the foundation with rebar to prevent settling.
Tied the curbing into the frontyard so it flowed.
We couldn't be happier and come spring we have a little bit more work to send their way.