I'm not sure what this other person is thinking - sometimes there's just no pleasing people, I guess. I have used Marc's Tree Service on three occasions. I found him on the list and he had something like 200 good reviews at the time. How exactly do you think he faked all of those reviews? Maybe people just think he does a good job...
I live on the lake and I had four or five quotes for the first round of work. Marc's prices were right in the middle of the bunch - I didn't hire him on price. I hired him because he showed up on time for the estimate and had a lot of ideas for my property that the other guys did not mention at all. I also got the sense that he wasn't going to nickel and dime me after the fact.
He cleared some dead trees for me - we lost a couple of big pine trees and that was the impetus to finally get the work done. He also did a major uplift of everything in back to open up our view of the water. He picked out all of the scraggly trees and underbrush and wow! everything looked so great afterwards.
They started at bout 7:30 in the morning and were there for the whole day. It was over 100 degrees. When I got back from work, they were still working. Marc brought in his colleague who does the stump grinding and it was almost getting dark. I can't believe how they were able to get all of the stumps even on the edge of the bank. In the end, it was all done in one day. Everything was chipped and hauled away. No mess on my driveway, no muddy ruts in the yard. A nice pile of mulch for me to use was the only evidence. His bill was exactly what he said it would be and he even did some extra branches at no charge.
Since then, I have had him back every year to trim back the suckers and tidy up. The pricing has always been good and the work has been better than expected. This year, I had his crew come in and do the whole front yard as well as the back. They pruned everything and brought all of my bushes back down below the windows. As usual, the work was good, everything was neat at the end and my trees look great.
Thanks Marc!