Lara's Landscaping Service

First of all, please please please DO NOT hire Ray Laura to do your landscaping. I don't even know where to begin and I will try to keep this as short as possible. Anyways, my wife and I saved up money for a very long time to have a backyard landscaped for the kids to play in. At first when we talked to Ray he seemed like a really nice guy and he genuinely seemed like he cared about his work. We had a concrete patio put in and that actually was pretty good, but the kicker is that he turned around and hired somebody else to come and do it. Ray also put concrete curbing, a sprinkler system, and sod in for us. First of all the concrete curbing is already cracked all the way through in a few spots. Secondly, the sprinkler system was ok but it was not what we had talked about as far as layout. Thirdly and worst of all was the sod. For being a "professional" landscaper he should be embarrassed and ashamed for ripping us off. The sod he had bought was beyond horrible condition. Ray himself admitted that it looked pretty beat up when he bought it, but he bought it anyways and installed it in our yard. There were a lot of patchy spots where there was no grass and there was a section of grass that he completely forgot to put in all together. He said he would bring a piece of sod over to install in that spot time and time again but never showed. That's seem pretty typical of Ray, the whole time we were doing business with him. He ignores your phone calls after he gets your business and money and doesn't like to show up on time to appointments or at all most of the time. I tried to call Ray the other day and he didn't answer. Then my wife called from her phone, which is a number we had never called him from before and he answered. There is so much more I could go on about with Ray and his XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXty work but I think you got the picture. Basically I have to tear up my back yard again and replace it. We also paid ray to install two 15 gal. fruit trees. He installed one that was questionably 15 gal and then there was the second tree that was maybe not even a one gal. tree. That's about a $80 difference in price. He tried to slip that one by us but I called him out on it. He never even said a word about it until I questioned him. His excuse was that he couldn't find a 15 gal. tree. I went out and found tons of 15 gal. trees all over town. So Ray was trying to rip us off. One last thing is that the yard had a few low spots in it. I asked ray why this was and why he had not leveled the ground before he put the sod in and he said "I couldn't level it because I didn't have any dirt to put there". Ya, that's the caliber of landscaper you are going to deal with if you hire this guy.