Matt's Landscaping

Matt's LandscapingMatthew S[redacted]I did a job for [redacted] in the late fall of last year. The date was 10-24-14. The job consisted of filling in his inground swimming pool with the soil that was around it and regrade the back yard and plant seed. In the contract it stated...

that if I needed to bring in more topsoil for the grass to grow it would be an additional cost. I told him that is was too late in the season to plant seed and we should do it in the Spring. Against my better judgement he still wanted me to do it in the late Fall. At the completion of the job, I told him that it is too late in the season to plant grass and I would come back in the Spring and bring topsoil and replant the yard. For some reason he could not understand this; he thought he could grow grass in the winter time. He called me through the winter season several times and I kept telling him when the weather was warm enough I would be out with top soil and seed to replant his yard. I came out in the first week of April and brought three loads of topsoil and seed and I planted his yard. I gave him the bill for the topsoil and seed that was stated in the contract that would be extra if I had to bring it in. He did not pay this portion of the bill, so I called him. He said that his yard still had spots where grass was not growing. So I went out to look at it and there were some spots that had not grown in yet; However new growth of grass was there. As everyone knows it usually takes a season for the whole yard to come in. I said, give it a couple more weeks to grow in. A couple of weeks later he called saying all of his grass died and he is not going to pay the rest of the bill. He tried to say the soil that I brought in was contaminated. There is no way it could have been contaminated because then the grass would not have grown in the first month and a half that it was in. For his whole yard to die he must of not watered it an/or put something on it that would have killed his grass. I believe he tried to fertilize it and he used the wrong product and he killed his own yard. That is not my fault and he still has not paid for the soil that was brought in. I did the job that was asked of me and he still as not paid in full.ID# [redacted]

Review: I hired Matt's landscaping to fix my back Yard. By Grading the land and bringing in the new top soil and plant grass seed. 1st I caught him steeling top soil from my garden and hauling it away and then he brought back contaminated top soil because all the grass died in the yard including the old grass. I had to hire a new contractor to fix and take out the topsoil Matt's landscaping brought in and replace with new. and replant the grass. This guy is a crook and should be put out of business.Desired Settlement: I am going after Matt's landscaping with a lawsuit for the money I payed him and to pay for all the damages he caused.

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Matt's LandscapingMatthew S[redacted]I did a job for [redacted] in the late fall of last year. The date was 10-24-14. The job consisted of filling in his inground swimming pool with the soil that was around it and regrade the back yard and plant seed. In the contract it stated that if I needed to bring in more topsoil for the grass to grow it would be an additional cost. I told him that is was too late in the season to plant seed and we should do it in the Spring. Against my better judgement he still wanted me to do it in the late Fall. At the completion of the job, I told him that it is too late in the season to plant grass and I would come back in the Spring and bring topsoil and replant the yard. For some reason he could not understand this; he thought he could grow grass in the winter time. He called me through the winter season several times and I kept telling him when the weather was warm enough I would be out with top soil and seed to replant his yard. I came out in the first week of April and brought three loads of topsoil and seed and I planted his yard. I gave him the bill for the topsoil and seed that was stated in the contract that would be extra if I had to bring it in. He did not pay this portion of the bill, so I called him. He said that his yard still had spots where grass was not growing. So I went out to look at it and there were some spots that had not grown in yet; However new growth of grass was there. As everyone knows it usually takes a season for the whole yard to come in. I said, give it a couple more weeks to grow in. A couple of weeks later he called saying all of his grass died and he is not going to pay the rest of the bill. He tried to say the soil that I brought in was contaminated. There is no way it could have been contaminated because then the grass would not have grown in the first month and a half that it was in. For his whole yard to die he must of not watered it an/or put something on it that would have killed his grass. I believe he tried to fertilize it and he used the wrong product and he killed his own yard. That is not my fault and he still has not paid for the soil that was brought in. I did the job that was asked of me and he still as not paid in full.ID# [redacted]