BEWARE. I hired Billy to cut down and haul away four large trees in my backyard. I agreed to pay…read more$1,500 total for the job, with one-half due up front, and the remainder due at completion. To his credit, Billy showed up on time on day one, but that's about the only thing he did right. He hired a 19 year old kid to do the cutting, and according to the kid, Billy offered to pay him $250 to do the job, which is a criminally low amount of money. Shortly after the work started, Billy asked me for a $250 advance to hire somebody to haul away the branches, which I paid. He then asked me for another $250 advance to make a deposit on a dumpster to haul away the branches, which I paid. He also asked me for another $250 advance for something else, which I paid. Unfortunately, I never saw the person he hired to haul away the branches or the dumpster. Then, the 19 year old told me that he was going to quit cutting down the trees because Billy only paid him $50, and said that he was only going to pay him $50 more. Since the kid, and not Billy, who showed up every morning to smoke a cigarette in my backyard and disappear, was the one doing all the work, I paid the kid to finish the job, which he did. When I asked Billy for a partial refund for not finishing the job that I fully paid him to do, he ignored me, and to add insult to injury, he left a broken down trailer in front of my house with tree branches on it. I've asked him several times to remove it, but he won't. I finally had to contact the Las Cruces Codes Department to tow it away. This guy might be the worst hire that I've ever made. He talks a good game, but don't be fooled. There's plenty of good contractors out there, do not hire this one.