Mendoza's Waterworks and Landscaping LLC
Glenn, Tucson, AZ

Mendoza's Waterworks and Landscaping LLC Reviews

2.8 stars based on 5 reviews

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  Michele Barnes

  1.0

  Don’t hire Albert Mendoza for landscaping: I had hired Albert Mendoza to do a landscaping job for my yard, I have used him for small jobs for years and then a larger job this summer when he said he was looking for extra cash flow with the pandemic. I then also referred him to a few friends for him to do their yard work. In October, we made an agreement for him to do another larger job for my yard for $1,000. On October 16th, I paid him $500 upfront for materials and he said we would start the job the next weekend. Then each weekend he would push it off with different excuses, like he was exhausted from working a 60-70 hour week at his normal job, that someone on his crew had a family emergency, then that he had some family stuff come up. Then on November 11th, 3.5 weeks later, he said he wasn’t going to be able to do my job and would work on getting my money back to me. Even though I don’t understand why he spent my money without doing my job, I tried to be understanding and asked him that we work out a plan. He didn’t respond. Then I followed up on November 19th, 5 weeks after I had sent him the money, to find out what hat the plan was and he didn’t respond. I had waited another week and a half for him to respond, and he didn’t. So I respectfully told him that because of his lack of response that I would have to set a hard deadline for the money to be returned by December 31st or I would need to seek legal action. He finally responded as if I had somehow slighted him by simply wanting my $500 back for the job he never did. I waited 2 weeks before following up on December 10th, to ask how he was going to return my money. He once again responded like I had done something wrong. I have tried to follow up weekly to give him to opportunity to make some effort to pay something and he has not responded. Today I let him know he has 1 week left to pay it back otherwise I would be seeking the $500, plus legal fees and inconvenience pay ($500 is a lot be out right now and I can’t just recoup that or proceed with the work I want to have done, plus it’s going to take time from work and my family to get everything sorted). And now he has blocked me. I am just so broken that I did so much to try and help this person with extra work this year and he has just completely taken advantage of me. On top of that, I found out that he was quoting jobs for other people that my friend had referred him to before I told her what happened, but he couldn’t come do my job? 2020 is the year. 🥺

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  Susan Anderson

  1.0

  I hired Albert to put a drip system in my yard. He seemed like he knew what he was doing but the drip failed and I called him begging to fix and he wouldn’t come. Then after I sent him a photo of my dead tree he came and did another botched up job and it still doesn’t work. Several plants still had no drip system. I would never recommend him for any work on a drip system. He doesn’t know what he’s doing and doesn’t stand behind his work. He told me I was harassing him by asking him to fix his mistakes. Don’t waste your money. I have to hire a new company to redo the entire yard.

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  Doug Hockstad

  2.0

  I’ve used Albert twice now, and both times resulted in excellent work. However, the first time I used him (through Thumbtack), he gave a (more or less) fixed price bid...and when finished charged me a bit more. At the time, I decided it was fine, because the work was good and the overage wasn’t extreme. HOWEVER, the next (and sadly likely last) time I used him, he came out, gave the price to fix the drip system, and then after completing the job, charged me 40% more then originally quoted. In my opinion, that is a bad business practice. When I contacted him, I paid the bill but voiced my concern. His response was (in essence) sometimes it costs me more than I thought and if you aren’t happy don’t use me again. I guess I will have to follow his advice.

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  Response from the owner

  Sorry u feel this way ,however I see my words have been turned around..We could of easily gave u a refund and put the system back the way it was if u didnt like the service..On what we had to do to your system to get it working again we gave u a fair price it was as little more cause we could not see the other damage that was under ground until the system was tied together and working. You had black tape on about 20 feet of line which doesnt repair any major leaks so we put new hose in so with us giving u a fair price and squeezing u into our schedule at a moments notice and doing more by removing your taped lines,I thing everything was extremely reasonable but then again u didnt cause u didnt like the increase of $40 which included repairing 2 more leaks and adding new emitters in some places that weren't getting water so what i recommended to u is that next time u have an issue u may want to go find someone else who can fill your needs at a lower rate and do more for u at a locked rate..Thanks for your time and your voiced concerns

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