When looking for landscaping in Arizona, it is sometimes easy to take the cheaper route and hire a "landscaper" who isn't insured, bonded, or even licensed. This is the sometimes the case because they are usually cheaper than the landscaping contractors that not only have the experience, but the proper licensing and insurance to make sure that your project will be done correctly. Just like any other trade or industry, you really do get what you pay for when looking for your next landscaper. In the State of Arizona, you can search for companies that claim to be licensed here: azroc.gov/forms/contractorsearch.html. This is important because in some cases, Companies and people will say that they are licensed when in fact, they are 1) Using someone else's number, 2) Making up a number, or 3) Using an old license number that has been taken away.
If you are interested in hiring a landscaper in Arizona to come to your house bi-weekly, weekly, monthly, or every three months, and make sure your landscape stays as beautiful as the first day it was installed, it is important to make sure that the landscapers actually show up and know what they are doing. Some of the biggest complaints I hear when talking with various friends is that their previous landscapers worked out for a few weeks, but then the crew started to cut corners in various landscaping tasks, then eventually, even started to miss days by not showing up. In Arizona, there are many different ways to see the track record of various companies geographically close in your region. Specifically, you can ask your friends and family, or look around at various reviewing sites like yelp.com/phoenix or dexknows.com/geo/s-az/. With both of these sites, you can geographically target the companies you want to look at in specifically to Arizona. You can even break it down to your city.
Inexperienced crews and landscapers in Arizona, who don't have the capacity to service as many customers as larger companies do, run into the problem of scaling. As they get more customers, it becomes increasingly more difficult for them to provide the great customer service they might have had when they had fewer clients. Larger companies that are established and have an A+ better business bureau customer service rating will usually better be able to provide that same service for everyone, since they usually have dedicated customer service representatives on staff. You can look up any Arizona company at central-northern-western-Arizona.bbb.org to verify that they are apart of the BBB and their current standings. After that, you should consider calling various companies a couple of times during normal business hours to see if someone is on the other end ready to provide service and answer your questions.
If you are interested in hiring a landscaper in Arizona to come to your house bi-weekly, weekly, monthly, or every three months, and make sure your landscape stays as beautiful as the first day it was installed, it is important to make sure that the landscapers actually show up and know what they are doing. Some of the biggest complaints I hear when talking with various friends is that their previous landscapers worked out for a few weeks, but then the crew started to cut corners in various landscaping tasks, then eventually, even started to miss days by not showing up. In Arizona, there are many different ways to see the track record of various companies geographically close in your region. Specifically, you can ask your friends and family, or look around at various reviewing sites like yelp.com/phoenix or dexknows.com/geo/s-az/. With both of these sites, you can geographically target the companies you want to look at in specifically to Arizona. You can even break it down to your city.
Inexperienced crews and landscapers in Arizona, who don't have the capacity to service as many customers as larger companies do, run into the problem of scaling. As they get more customers, it becomes increasingly more difficult for them to provide the great customer service they might have had when they had fewer clients. Larger companies that are established and have an A+ better business bureau customer service rating will usually better be able to provide that same service for everyone, since they usually have dedicated customer service representatives on staff. You can look up any Arizona company at central-northern-western-Arizona.bbb.org to verify that they are apart of the BBB and their current standings. After that, you should consider calling various companies a couple of times during normal business hours to see if someone is on the other end ready to provide service and answer your questions.
Maintaining Arizonan landscape is challenging for multiple reasons. In Arizona, the hot weather is one of the main reasons why it is difficult to keep your flowers and plants looking beautiful all year long. Experienced landscapers in Arizona will make sure you have the correct plants and flowers installed from the beginning. Planting plants and flowers that have the best chance of making it through the 100+ degree weather is always important. It would be a benefit for you to do some research on the best plants to grow in Arizona and ask the landscaper their professional opinion. You can then see what their opinion is and determine if they are very knowledgeable by cross referencing their suggestions with phoenixtropicals.com/colorfulFloweringlandscapePlants.html.
Some of the more common plants used for landscaping here are:
1) Saguaro
2) Century plant (not native)
3) Octopus agave (not native)
4) Santa Rita prickly pear
5) Arizona caltrop
Lastly, It doesn't hurt to ask the potential landscaper for portfolio pictures, reviews/testimonials, and how long they have been in Business. It is always good to review their previous work through pictures, so you can see what kind of work they have done in the past. Reviews and testimonials are good, but only if you are able to get a hold of the people to verify that they are real and not made up. Also, you can get some insight from the previous customer that you probably wouldn't get from the landscaper.
Here is a recap of the things to consider when looking for landscapers in Arizona:
1) Is the landscaper insured, licensed, and bonded?
2) Does the landscaper have a good track record through reviews and testimonials?
3) Do they have a dedicated customer service representative on staff in order to better assist you?
4) Do they have experience with landscaping?
5) Is their portfolio contain work that you consider of quality?
6) Is it a "fly by night" company that is ran out of their back yard?
I believe that if you consider some of the things provided above and actually follow through with them, the next time when you are looking for a landscaper in Arizona,
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