I’ve cut my own yard for years, but will be traveling a bit this summer and won’t be able to manage it myself.
I started weekly service (in Illinois) and was quoted $45/week. The first service was great! Clean everywhere, and they even got the patch of grass behind my fence.
The next two following have been not as great. They don’t edge along the house, have a lot of missed spots or patchy lengthy areas, and leave what I think are big clumps behind.
The quote said “Mowing: Includes Mow, Edge, and Blow”.
Does this seem like a reasonable quality of service? I always thought I shouldn’t leave big clumps behind like that, but I’m reading tons of advice that say it’s good for the yard. The other things I’m not so sure about. I’m guessing I could ask them to add a note to the account about behind the fence. I already feel a bit taken advantage of though because they charged a hefty surprise fee for the first cut to “bring it up to standards” but my yard looked better than this before their first service. I wanted to get some yard guru opinions: from the photos of my yard service 2 hours ago, what should or shouldn’t I be happy about?