If you are thinking of hiring Rick Swinarski, A Cutting Edge, run away fast…. run very very fast. He seems like a good guy with many stories that seem to make sense about landscaping but his stories are a cover for a lack of knowledge and low quality work. After awhile he will stop showing up. At first he does an acceptable job at best, later his work becomes unacceptable. He will take the money and run. He gave us notice that he could not finish the job but took all our money anyway. We are now trying to get part of it back. It will take at least a year or more for our landscaping to recover. He built a patio for one of our neighbors last summer, by this spring it had buckled and they had to hire another contractor to fix the problem. He gave another neighbor a bid on their drainage issue and for the next nine months he never came to do the job. Many phones calls to him with reasons why he was not there, too wet, too cold but it will be done by mid April. Never showed. No money was paid but nine months later, in the busy season they are now looking for another contractor. We found out too late for us that he has a history of shady business then changing business names. See WRAL Five on Your Side story from 2005 his business name then was Carolina Landscape and Turf. It looks like Rick Swinarski or his relatives wrote all his good reviews online, unfortunately we believed them.
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