Report of Backyard Project Overall Performance 00 STARS If you hire this person it will be the biggest mistake of your life. Extremely poor workmanship performance. Extremely poor attendance performance. Extremely poor Customer Service performance. Extremely poor taking feedback from Customer concerns. Always insisting they are right and customer is wrong. Extremely argumentative. Extremely explosive temper, I always felt like he was going to hit me. Extremely poor performance when trying to do jobs correctly for the third time of rework, still could not do job correctly after 3 tries. Extremely poor performance following customer instructions. He just didn't get it. If I was to do personal attacks as to his personality it would not be able to be said without me seeming like an unintelligent human being, so I will hold my tongue. On our final encounter in which he was ripping up things he had tried to do so he could take them home, he came and put his face a few inches from mine and held up his fist like he was going to punch me. I told him go ahead, hit me. By the way I am a 71 year old man. May 30th, 2025 I registered on Angie's List. He was at my house within one half hour. Talking a big talk that he would pour a cement sidewalk so that all water on the cement would drain away from house. The cement all drained towards the house. He said he would make it so the cement would drain all the water towards the street. It did not. He dug up the cement and tried again with same results and then tried to convince me that it was OK. He said I needed a new fence. I said OK. I told him to build an 18' by 2' garden from 4x4's I had. He said OK. Then I asked for sod to be put down on a 15' by 20' area in back yard. He said OK. He said he could do the project for $6,000.00 and would need half down for material and the rest when the work was done. Then he said that I needed new fence posts, which I thought would be part of putting in a new fence. The fence was installed with varying spaces between the slats of 1/8" to 1/2". Looks horrible. They tried 3 times to get it right and could not. He then said that would raise the price of the job to $14,400.00. He asked for the 2nd half of the price of $6,000.00 because he had to pay for labor. He had 2 to 3 children doing most of the heavy work. He then begged me for $4,000.00 more. I refused and stupidly gave him $1,800.00. After a few days he sent his father to ask me for more money and I refused. This made them mad. He still had never installed the gate for the fence. So from May 30th to July 22nd, he had been here maybe a total of 15 hours. When and if anyone showed up, it was always in the heat of the day and after a couple of hours of lazy work they would say "We don't feel good, and we need to go home." We will come tomorrow early they said. That never did happen. On the last day he came, he brought his whole crew, and some muscle man I had never seen before and threatened to put a lien on my house. I told them to get off my property and never come back. I called the police and they said they would make sure he never comes back unless he wants to face charges. I now have to install cameras that cover my whole yard 24/7 the police said. I am waiting to see what develops. read more

Same experience as other reviewers. Joseph Maestas signed contract for driveway on a given date. $4800 down. After third no-show I called it quits and asked for my money back. The address he gave is not valid so I can't serve a small claims court summons...Just outright thievery it is. read more

Do not hire this company. I am giving them one star only because a zero star option is not available. I hired Maestas Concrete and Landscaping on 5/31 to remove a concrete patio. He said it would just take a few hours to complete. The owner and his cousin showed up on 6/8, worked for a bit then had to leave to repair a broken water line on another job. He said he would be back the next day. It was several days later when they did show up and had some luck. The concrete was harder and thicker than normal. He asked for half the money to rent bigger jack hammer and again they would be back the next day. A few days later they came back with the bigger jack hammer and worked a bit longer. Then a few more days he dropped his dad off to finish jackhammering the patio. His dad did not finish. They wanted to leave their tools and come back the next day. His dad told me a big sob story about housing rent coming due and needing money to rent a skid steer to load the concrete into the traitor, since it was thicker and heavier than normal. I paid them, big mistake of course. That was on 6/23. Never saw him again. The cousin came by about a week later and got their tools saying they had to return some things before they could rent the skid steer. He assured me they would be back in a few days (always a few days, or this week, or tomorrow). Never saw him again either. They were paid in full $2400.00, and they did not finish the job. Should have been an easy win and a way to get a five star review, bust up and haul away a patio. I have texted the owner of the company multiple times and he kept assuring me they would come out and finish the job. Now he does not even bother return my texts and lying to me. Do not hire this company or these guy when they change the name of the company which they will surely do. I tried to file a complaint via the BBB, but they have changed their information to make that process much more difficult. If you do hire them, do not pay one penny until they are 100% done and you are 100% satisfied. read more

Maestas Concrete and Landscaping - Landscaping Near Me

Concrete sidewalk installation, concrete landscape curbing, landscaping. This was a difficult and disappointing company to work with. The owner ( Joseph), and his brother ( represent themselves as " can do" contractors. They represented they could 1 - Remove our flagstone path from our side yard to our back yard. Replace it with concrete. 2 - remove our damaged metal edging in both front and back yard. 3 - replace the edging in front with concrete curbing, bring concrete curbing outside tree footprint in backyard,. Concrete curbing to have prepared base. 4 - refresh backyard rock, add pink rock and weed barrier to grass areas formerly inside the tree footprint to concrete curbing. 5 - relocate sprinkler heads to accommodate smaller grass footprint. 6 - Mow weekly, plant flowers, trim trees. They informed us the sidewalk work was a half day, and the curbing work was easy "a few hours". The flagstone removal took a couple of hours, with our flagstone stacked in our front yard rock area (where it would remain for six weeks) The sidewalk was installed in an afternoon, with forms being placed just in front of the concrete pour. Jose did an excellent job finishing the concrete. We were disappointed by the amount of trash (water bottles, energy drink bottles, water hose line, buckets) left in our backyard after the work. It took a week before they came back and picked up trash before beginning curb work. Curb work took weeks, and involved Jose mixing concrete bags in a wheel barrow by hand, placed on top of grass by hand, with a back form installed by hand. Turf was not cut, base for curb was not installed. We became frustrated with intermittent nature of work. Jose would assure us work would occur one day, only have Jose show up days later. A few hours became 6 weeks. The tree trimming occurred, with limbs left in backyard for 4 weeks. We payed 1/2 up front, only to have them ask for more during sidewalk pour. We became frustrated after 5 weeks with concrete forms in place and trash left in backyard, concrete forms for curbing in place along with some limbs, and materials left in front yard, along with the flagstone, after Jose told us he was 30 minutes out at 9:00 am, and had not showed after noon. My wife and I removed the forms ourselves, removed the trash, placed their tools at the curb and informed them we were done. Jose showed up 45 min later telling us we owed him the rest of his money. We disagreed. After negotiating they agreed to remove their materials, the large flagstone, the trash, finish rock work, mow and trim lawn for 6 weeks in exchange for the money. They completed tasks and mowed one week later. They have not showed up since. Tough experience, frustrating from a customer side to work with. I requested a detailed summary of costs and received nothing. Work completed with flaws. Promised follow on landscape work ignored. Would not recommend. read more

Horrible company to deal with! All the other reviews are so true! I made the huge mistake of not reading this company's reviews! I learned a huge lesson! The owner, (Joesph), was unreliable and dishonest about when he would get the job done. Requested 1/2 payment for "materials " then failed to show up. I had to call constantly to get them to show up and work on my contracted project. He would tell me "we are on our way," "be there this afternoon ", "tomorrow for sure" and not show up! He actually had the nerve to tell me he was "just pulling up" when I called and did not show up!!! Joseph is unorganized, poorly managed and dishonest contractor we have ever worked with. It took 7 weeks to get our curbing, concrete sidewalk and replenishing of our mulch done. Other bidders had told us 2 weeks at the very most! We finally had to tell him we consulted with a lawyer and were going to call the city licensing department to get him to finish the project. Which still took 3 weeks because his "crew" he told us he had, was only his brother and cousin . They would work a few hours, say they would be back after lunch and not show up again till I called!!! On of the most disturbing issues was When Joseph brought 2 little boys about 8 and 11to work. These little boys were put to work hauling concrete, stone and mulch to our back yard while Joseph sat around and watche. It was disgusting. I gave them water and snacks, he had nothing for them. When I questioned Joseph about these boys he told me "they were his wards and they like to work". Omg! I thought about calling Child Protective Services. It bothers me I did not. Josephs excuse for not showing was "family problems". Which were all legal issues. The left a mess of rubbish around our yard which we picked up daily. They also took photos of our yard they wanted to show other customers that included work that was not theirs. We finally told them we were not paying them anymore money. Joseph said he needed rent money so they rushed to get the job done and it shows. This was a horrible experience. I will never hire another small business with out actually talking with other customers and researching reviews. read more

Process started out well with the owner Joseph coming out quickly to give us an estimate. He then stated he could get the framing and cement pour done the following week but needed a 50% deposit so he could get supplies. That is where the issues started. We gave him a check but then he said he couldn't cash it. So he returned that check and we had to provide him another one from my wife's bank. He told her he would be back that day to start the framing. He didn't show up for 3 days and that is only because I called him and got on him about coming out (his excuse was that he had to move). He ended up sending his brother out who showed up at 4:30pm and worked for about 2-3 hours before going home. He told me he would return at 10am the next day to finish the framing. He didn't show back up until almost 6pm the next day (because apparently the truck needed new brakes) worked for about an hour and then left without letting me know when he would be back. It took almost another week for him to return and, again, this was after repeatedly hounding Joseph, the owner. When his brother finally showed back up, he told me he burned his foot so he was only able to stay a couple of hours but he would be back with a crew the next day to finish the framing. Surprise, surprise, he never showed. After repeatedly reaching out to the owner and threatening legal action, I finally got the owner to call me. He swore the framing and cement pour would be complete the following Tuesday. Once again, the framing wasn't done and the cement wasn't poured. He finally got everything done the next day and demanded that my wife pay him the remaining 50%. She asked that we wait until I was back from a work trip but he gave her a sob story about having to pay his crew that day. She gave him the money and he left. He also left all the old metal edging, chunks of cement, an old wheelbarrow and a bunch of trash in our backyard. When I returned from my trip on Saturday, I reached out to him and told him to come get it. His excuse was that it rained so he couldn't come get it. On Monday I told him I was putting his stuff on the curb and that the next day was trash day so he needed to get it before the trash guys came. He swore he was going to come get it on Tuesday. Guess what? He didn't show and told me he got off work late. He then told me he would come get it at 7:30am the next morning and that he "wasn't lying". Once again he didn't show and I had to call and literally get into a yelling match with the guy. He kept telling me that his guys were at a job 2 houses down as if somehow that made the stuff in our yard disappear. After the call, his guys finally showed up and removed the stuff. The workmanship was also not quality either. The edge of the sidewalk looked terrible and he ran a drain pipe from our downspout under the sidewalk. However, he left the end of the spout sticking straight up so that it doesn't drain and didn't secure the extension to the downspout so it's already falling off. Our gate also won't close properly since the cement was poured higher than the gravel that was there before and he wouldn't raise the gate. I took pictures but I guess I can't post them with this review. Overall terrible experience with this company with nothing but excuses and no ownership taken by Joseph! read more

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Veey horrible experience with this company. This company came out and gave a great price on our concrete and took over another company who also seemed great, our mistake we went with this company. Joseph and his crew came out and framed the job and everything went smoothly, we signed a contract and he said he needed money down to get supplies for the job. We said okay and said so when are guys coming back and he said that following Friday. They did come out that day that they said and got the work done, it looked great at first but not everything was done. They said that one of the crew members would come out and finish the job the next day but never showed. This is when problems started showing. The crew never came back out to finish the job and after this it was excuse after excuse. We called them multiple tikes to come and finish the stairs and also the facing of the concrete, they said they would come but of course never showed, shockers. This is when we noticed problemsnin the concrete, there was chipping on the top and also a very rouh on the top, again we asked them to come finish and they never came. FINALLY after WEEKS, a crew member came out after we threatened legal action and he was snippy with us but apologized for how the job was done. He said he would come the next day and finish but never did. SO many excuses from this company, there is damage on our house with their messy concrete pour and now a very poor job on our concrete that they wont finish or refund us the money back. Very unprofessional on the phone and eventually we told them to come get their supplies from our backyard and don't ever come back. Without calling us, this company jumped our fence to get their stuff (but not all) and left. We had to call them again to come get the rest of their stuff from our backyard and we said we would put it outside of our fence and never come back again. DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS COMPANY TO ANYBODY! Very very upset with the work. read more