Okay. I've sat on this review for a few days before deciding to act. I'm still upset with how I was…read moretreated.
One of my neighbors initially hired them to cut branches on my trees back to the property line, as he is in his right to do, plus some other work on the trees on his property. He dropped by to inform me, and the workers offered a fairly reasonable price on removing a dead tree in my front yard. I agree, and I thought that was it.
Well apparently my other neighbors did not. They've been unhappy that a pine tree on my property... I dont know... exists... and has the gaul to drop pine needles on their side of the property line (yes, they're Boomers, how did you know?). I've stated that I can't authorize work on their side of the property line, but that they can trim the branches back to the property line, PER STATE OF CALIFORNIA LAW. So whatever, apparently they hired these duds to do that.
So five minutes goes by, and I get a knock at my door. Its who I assume to be the foreman, asking for permission to enter my backyard to trim the branches on Boomer Branch Side. Which... to my understanding, shouldn't require access to my yard to trim. I'm a woman, alone, and I have dogs, one of which is a puppy who is still in training and needs frequent yard access; meanwhile, these guys can't quite vocalize why the scope of the cutting requires access to my yard.
So like, yeah, NO.
But like many men, apparently "no" means nothing. They stood there pressuring me to change my answer for a while... and I, regrettably, caved. (Stupid, stupid, stupid girl.) Fine. Fine. Whatever, just tell me when youre ready so I can let my dogs out for a final time, then put them safely inside and let you guys in.
Do you think that's what happened? NO? Oh my God, how did you guess?
These absolute tools let themselves into my yard, unannounced. Then proceeded to get pissy that I was so mad I had to catch my breath. I've been the victim of an attempted home invasion, and this felt so invasive and degrading (due to the pressure for access to my property). And yeah, the permission I gave you at the door was not carte blanche permission to enter my property at will. I also gave specific instructions that were ignored. Also, I swear to God, I am Hispanic, I speak Spanish, and I know I heard the word "Mujer" brandied about in a degrading way. No es "mujer," ¿pero, "Lo siento señora."? It really do be your own kind.
Machismo bull**** notwithstanding, these absolute yahoos proceed to do work beyond the scope of the project. I sat outside and monitored the work at this point because I did not trust them. I tried to stop them from cutting branches that I don't believe overhung my neighbors property, but rather City of Temecula land. They didn't listen to me, even though I split custody of the tree with the city, not Boomer Neighbor.
They also tried to use a branch from one of my other trees to gain leverage to pull a large limb down. Yeah, no. That one I did stop outright.
Then these idiots placed a ladder on my retaining wall on the other side of my yard, to trim stuff on the side of the property line with my other neighbor that I had not agreed to.
1) Yall didn't ask permission to do that
2) That ladder placement was totally unsafe; hm. Whos homeowners insurance do you think was going to pay for any accidents that happened? Sure as hell wasn't going to be my neighbor, because you werent on his property...
And they trimmed well past the property lines onto my property and city property. So great. Now if the City gets pissed off, it's on me. I know San Bernadino doesn't care, but Temecula and my HOA do.
If I am being honest, I think they took advantage of me to keep my older, whiter neighbors happy.
And the kicker: when confronted with all of the above, in English and in better Spanish (I called my mom to come over), they didn't even apologize. Nothing. Not even an acknowledgement that something could potentially go wrong. With the city, with the hack job to the limbs of my tree, with the overcoming, with the stupid ass ladder... Not even with entering my property without permission.
And I still paid full price for the stupid dead tree removal.
Whatever. Enjoy your bad review dudes. Hope Boomer neighbors filed a charge back, I don't think they were happy either, as yall essentially charged $750 to trim City property.