Vaca handles our HOA common space landscaping. From drainage to weekly maintenance and new landscaping projects - they are always on point. Our properties landscaping looks great. They manage our irrigation system perfectly as well. The team has a good eye for attention to detail and keeps our property looking tip top. Thanks Vaca! read more

VACA maintains our 100 unit property that has over 480 trees and shrubs as well as extensive gardens and lawns. The work of the team lead by Jesus do a superior job of keeping the property so well manicured that it should be mentioned in "Better Homes and Gardens" for the quality of work and beauty that the team maintains. I highly recommend this team. read more

Vaca Landscape and Construction has been working for our Condo HOA for almost 2 years. In that time, I have found the owner, Jaime Vaca and his crew a pleasure to work with. They take great care of our property and have executed our requests perfectly. At the time Vaca was hired I was on our HOA Board and Chair of our Landscape Committee. We vetted 5 different Landscape vendors and choose Vaca based on Jaime Vaca's knowledge and experience in the landscape industry. Our pervious landscape vendor didn't seem to care about our property. After hiring Vaca, we noticed an immediate improvement in the condition of landscape. When we hired them, we asked to have a complete evaluation of our irrigation system. With their expertise we were able to make necessary repairs and improvements to our system at very reasonable costs. And aside from providing weekly maintenance they have done several new installations at reasonable costs that have enhanced our property. When doing these new installations Jaime and his crew have always gone above and beyond our initial request and quote for the work. They truly take pride in the service that they provide. Our Landscape Committee meets with Jaime once a month to walk the property and discuss any issues. Jaime always listens to our concerns and provides us with appropriate solutions. He is a great communicator and has made himself available as needed. If you're looking for a great landscape company, I highly recommend Jaime Vaca and Vaca Landscape and Construction. read more

Vaca Landscaping has been taking care of our condo association property for a year and a half now. The owner, Jaime Vaca, is a fantastic businessman with an incredible work ethic and wonderful business ethics. I highly recommend him and his company. I have tremendous respect for him. I am on the HOA landscape committee and it has been such a pleasure working with Jaime. He meets with us monthly to review the property. His crew has done an excellent job putting in new landscape installations as well as taking care of the existing landscaping and irrigation. Jaime Vaca always goes above and beyond. I feel like we have consistently gotten more than we've even expected. Jaime takes great pride in the work his company does and always wants it to be done right. We had a horrible landscape company before we hired Vaca. What a difference Vaca has made! Do yourself a favor and hire this company! read more

Jamie, the owner of Vaca Landscaping continues harassing me over my Yelp review. Here's the last email from him April 7, 2022: "I'm not giving apology letter and 10,000. Keep Your yelp review. I have several clients that are going to write reviews, soon you will see honest reviews. I tried to work it out with you but you are unreasonable man. By the pictures you posted of your timer and wire, I can see you are cheap. Last time we spoke you bragged about how much your home is worth. That says a lot about you. I work with clients with over 20 million dollar estates and I take care of over 40 commercial sites. Your property size worth means nothing to me. Your dishonesty will catch up to you. Karma is a real thing. Have a good one. I have real customers that appreciate are work and don't cheat contractors. Jaime Vaca Landscape Inc." Here's my response: "For the record. This latest email from you about my feedback from the mess you as contractor is pure harassment. I have not made any demand on you for any letter or sum and have made that clear in previous email to you. You are the unreasonable contractor. You have never previewed the work I requested along with a photo of the specific issue (a leaky PVC irrigation pipe in a trench under my backyard lawn). You dispatched two unlicensed and uncertified "laborers" to repair a rather simple pipe leak where I had exposed it for them. One could not speak a word of English. The other spoke only a word or two. It was impossible to have a conversation with them. The one that couldn't speak a word of English dug aggressively a far larger hole around the PVC leaky joint and in the process slashed the electric cables. They tried to blame me. My photos demonstrated I had not exposed any cables, let along cut them. They worked no less than 8 extra hours to repair the cable connections, without success, and told me over and over "It was free. No charge for that time." The very next day you contacted me. You told me there's be no charge for the pipe repair, but you had no intent of returning to repair the irrigation system and cable hookups that your men damaged so my system would work. And you charge me with being dishonest. Your charge: "I can see you (me) as cheap." That is an insult and harassment from you, a licensed contractor. You by law must be bonded for work left incomplete and was caused by your people. I never "bragged" about the cost of my home. I told you in my email that the damage your men did to my decorative hedge to my home that was worth $3M. My feedback related to the above issues was to the best of my ability and records, correct and complete. I have been totally honest with you, and have suggested a path forward." I am age 91, retired, and a U.S. Army Korean vet. Note: Jamie of Vaca Landscape has not publicly responded on Yelp with his falsehoods and name calling. Notice also that Yelp continues to post Vaca's overall rating as "better than average." Outrage! Note: Novato Better Business Bureau does not list this business among others in the same type of services that they endorse with high ratings. Beau read more

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I want to correct the record on a previous review that claims Vaca Landscaping is highly unreliable. Nothing could be more inaccurate. Vaca Landscape and Construction is highly reliable and does exceptional work. It's a company run by a highly competent, reliable and honest owner, Jamie Vaca. He used to maintain our property at Hillside Park East and when asked by unscrupulous board members to make false statements about landscaping damage by a roofing contractor, he quit his contract before he would lie about damage that never happened. Eventually the truth comes out and today I want to set the record straight. You're an honest and reliable landscaping contractor! My hats off to you Jamie Vaca. read more

I got 4 bids for our landscaping project in San Rafael. Vaca landscaping was the 2nd to the highest and I still decided to hire them as I never higher the lowest bidder on any projects I do. I will make this brief, after the project began I literally had to throw them out of my property, pick up all their materials/equipments, paid them for their work and hired another landscaper to finish up the mess they began. Reasons being: Using cheap or non-specified materials Not organized and creating a big mess everywhere including neighbor's property. Disappearing on me for 1 day read more

I honestly don't believe the negative reviews for Vaca. Jaime does amazing work and is of the highest integrity.

Jaime Vaca and his landscaping crew have been managing the landscape of my HOA for many years now, and they do a terrific job, consistently. I have been on this community's board of directors and another, where we went through landscaping companies that one after the other charged an arm and a leg for really poor work. Vaca came in and corrected all the problems the last company left, including a failing irrigation system, poorly groomed hedges and other landscaping, dying vegetation, invasive plants and open space debris that were a fire danger. Our landscaping looks really wonderful, whether too much rain or too little, Jaime can be slow to respond on phone or email, but otherwise, I have no complaints. His work and that of his crew are excellent! read more

Left a message on their machine - asked them to call. No response for five days. Call again - get a call back from the owner, who claims he was away for the weekend. Not true - I saw his truck near my home over the weekend. Anyway we agree I'd call him later that evening to set up a time to visit our house. I do that, get his voicemail, and leave a message. Again no reply. If this is how they treat a prospective customer, how good could they be after you agree to use them? Update: The owner has sent several messages to me asking me what it would take to remove this review. He says that I did not see him in his truck (he has several) and that he truly was out of town on a family emergency. Maybe true - who knows - so I have raised my rating from one to three. He still doesn't get a four or five because his absence after the first call doesn't explain why he failed to follow up after I actually spoke to him. read more

Vaca has landscaped my 230+ condo complex for over a year now. They are consistent, thorough and do excellent work. The lawns are beautifully green and groomed, shrubs neatly cut and the irrigation system finally works. The landscapers are also friendly and respectful. Thanks guys for making my community a haven. read more

These guys do beautiful work and are very helpful. The owner Jaime is very knowledgeable about landscaping. Highly recommended.

They are the new landscape company for my townhouse community and they are working their way through our neighborhood hacking away at all the plant material leaving almost no leaves on any of our mature plantings.Our neighborhood used to be beautiful attracting lots of birds and butterflies and it was a haven for pollinators and beneficial insects. Now it looks like Hiroshima after the bomb was dropped. If I could give them zero stars I would read more