Mendoza's Waterworks and Landscaping LLC

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.

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.

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

Good experience with this company did a great job finish just when he said he would. On time and very professional woukd hire him again and also recommend others sure would.