Contractors. Oy.

[kyrielle]

Yesterday's estimate went well, overall pleased with it, may go with them. Today's estimate didn't. Never mind that they came in over the other guy and will not do as much work. He also spent all the time trying to hard-sell us, all the references are for his company and not him as this is his first year doing this (but he shoved tons of references for other people's work at us), the guarantee is not as long, the...oy. Enough said, just oy. He kept telling us the same things over and over about what his company does that makes them superior, once is plenty, honest.

And then he wants to know how we feel about the thing and whether we think we'll go with him, and when I say we want time to think about it and get back to him, he says, but I want to know how you feel now. My response was "pressured".

He totally forgot about going over the colors with us, which I ignored, because by then I just wanted him out of the house. Then on the way out, he wanted to know when he could call us back to follow up and I told him we would call him and let him know either way.

Pushy.

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[kyrielle]

Yep. The guy I liked was not reluctant but he was very up-front about being scheduled until July. And he had references and recommendations for work HE had done....

Always a bonus.

And I really, really like the landscape company we went with. I KNOW they are busy, but they knew the contract was coming in and they must have kept something open, because when they got it, they were right out here. It looks so much better, and they haven't even added the fresh plantings or replaced the dead tree (they did, however, remove it).