We contracted this incompetent company to complete the final grade, fencing, and all other landscaping on our new home. The owner is unprofessional, workers are inexperienced, and they have no care for workmanship, quality or your property. The company demanded 25% up front with quarterly instalments without being a registered prepaid contractor in Alberta. They started the first week of June, and after missing their promised July 14 completion date (with inexperienced workers putting in 2 hour days- if they even showed up without direction from the owner) by mid-august they were nowhere near completing. We had paid 50% of the contract and didn't even have final grade approval, no hard scape work was done, planted trees were damaged and dying and now they were asking for another 25% and thousands in unapproved extras. After we questioned the owner, Dillon Reinich, about timing, quality, and extras we were given an ultimatum to pay or work would stop and materials would be pulled. We had to cancel contract and were forced to take legal action.
Their other jobs on our street, started in June, are still not completed as of October 10 and our street is a mess.
- Approximate cost of services:
- $54,000.00
- What could this company do to improve their services?
- Improve skills in landscaping Show up Improve professionalism Stop taking money in advance unless they register with Service Alberta Increase business knowledge Hire Better employees Manager should manage employees
- Any advice to offer fellow homeowners facing a similar project?
- Hire someone else