Generations Landscapz

This is from the owner Dan macedo of Generations Landscapz As contractors we are held to the highest standards and our clients are allowed to post on sites we do not use to write good or bad usually only bad. I believe the consumer has rights no doubt but not to trash people without proper due diligence.The state of California does not protect contractors that get bad customers who don't pay their bills and these sites don't reflect the situation of both sides. When a conflict happens the contractor who has a bond and insurance is not protected. The bond wants you to resolve it and does nothing financially to absolve the sitiluation. Therfore if you as a contractor don't get paid and walk off you are dropped by your bond insurance covers nothing and listed as revoked. Customer complains to state board without your side or input so basocally your guilty til proven innocent. I'd say to those reading these sites and houzz is a good site I just happen to have all my reviews on homeadvisor/angie now were I'm ranked as a 4.7 with over 50 reviews. So when a review says we are horrible do you really think after being in business over 30 years plus and over 44 ---5.0 reviews with paragraphs of great comments about myself and my staff of 20 plus years it's us or possibly and most likely the customer who is wrong here? Last but not least 37 years in the industry counts for something along with pride,Integrity and goalsl to do the job correctly but not for free. We follow the contract but it sure seems the people wanting landscaping today want more on the contract than agreed upon for my time and my dime with no compensation even when they say they will take care of it verbally or written down. We still have to go to court. Final thought where do we as Con tractors get to complain on sites to warn other contractors that these people are bad news??? 2 sides to every story. Read my reviews on homeadvisor/ Angie last 12 years to make your own decisions please Thank you!! Dan Macedo/ owner of Generations Landscapz Also on my Facebook business page with Generations Landscapz you can see all photos from this job and many many more. It only let's me post 6 so I didn't get to post ones from the end but you can see for yourself if you choose to look other site.I walked out with 2 days left to complete job after dealing with the wife 4 months she left to India leaving me with husband or brother? Who never was around always trying not to pay weekly payments even though we were there everyday in the worst winter in Pleasanton history. He said he didnt see progress. Hard to see progress when building a big bbq with cynder blocks full of rebar, conduit pulling wire facing with ledgerstone setting concrete board on counter tops, cutting out sink. Just insulting really and I'm out over 25k in extras that I'll prove in court!

I had terrible experience with landscape contractor, Dan Macedo (Generationz Landscape). He is very unprofessional, unethical, rude and not transparent. He has taken all the payments upfront and did not finish the work. And now he started asking more money to finish the agreed work. He generally gets plants from Devil mountain wholesale nursery. He lies about all the prices of the plants. I have verified by calling the nursery. He lies about delivering the certain piece of work in certain week, but does not deliver even after months, but expects payment every week. If we say we will stop payment, until agreed work gets delivered he threatens to stop the work in mid-way. In spite of paying all payments and only 0.3% remaining which is supposed to be given once he finishes all the work, he asks for more money to deliver the agreed work. When we asked to finish the remaining work, he stopped the work. He has totally lied and exploited us. While trying to find a way to file a case against him, found in Contractors State License Board (https://www.cslb.ca.gov) that his license got revoked on 03/13/2018 It’s unfortunate that we did not know or try to verify his license in the beginning. Please do not hire this contractor and ruin your landscaping work, peace of mind and money. And always check status of contractor in cslb website.

Before you consider this landscaper, read over some of the other negative reviews and read his responses to the reviews. You will see that he defends himself and the unhappy customer is never right. (home advisor, google, and porch.) Yes, he has a lot of positive reviews and it seems that if you have a large job, he cares, if it isn’t large, he doesn’t. I had a very small area (approx. 350 sq. ft.) that needed grass. I asked him for a quote and he said that he wouldn’t lay the sod unless I paid him to put in sprinklers. (even though the area already had sprinklers that adequately watered the area. I’m guessing he was trying to make a small job worth his time) I didn’t want the sprinklers, but, I was getting anxious to get the grass in, so that my daughter would have a place to play during the summer, so I agreed to have him do the job. His quote said they would remove the existing rock, till and grade the area, install (the unnecessary) sprinklers, and lay the sod. Dan said that since it was such a small job that he would have to wait until another job in my area needed sod so that he could use the left overs. When they finally came to lay the sod, it looked dry. The workers did everything very fast and they didn’t till or grade the area. After they were finished I noticed that it looked like there were a few different types of grass that were used (probably because he was using leftovers from a few different jobs) Within the first three days it started dying and turning yellow along the edges of each piece of sod. I let Dan know what was happening and he came to look at it. He told me not to waste any more water, let the whole thing die and he would replace it when he had another job in my area. Weeks went by and no contact from Dan. I called repeatedly and when I finally reached him, he told me to get the area ready, he would be out to relay the sod in two weeks. They day before he was supposed to come we prepped the area ourselves, tilling, grading, and laying down topsoil, since he didn’t do that the first time. The day he was scheduled to come he didn’t show up, no call, no text. Four more weeks went by, and after a number of unanswered calls and texts, I finally sent him an angry text questioning his professionalism…. That finally got his attention and he responds saying that it was MY FAULT that my grass died, (even though he used leftover, bad, dried out sod) that I must not have watered correctly, (even though his guys are the ones who set up my sprinkler timer for 10 min 2x a day) and said “wrong time of year to do it, I’m broke and have no other jobs to pay for it”. Direct quote from his text. If you were professional. You would have said all that in the beginning. (I have pictures of all his texts and the progression of the dead grass.) It may not have been a big deal for him because it was not a “big job” for him, but it is to me and my family. A thousand dollars and over a year later and I have nothing but a dirt patch with sprinklers that I didn’t even want! He is only in it for the money, if you have a small job, he will take advantage of you or blow you off, cause it’s not worth it to him. He was unprofessional, dishonest, and didn’t follow through fixing his mistake. I felt used, lied to, cheated, and blamed. If you’re not going to do the job right, don’t do it at all! I’ve been fighting to try to get this resolved with him since March of 2017. Please, be careful when working with Dan Macedo.