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Old 09-27-2024, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by janetlea View Post
Hopefully everyone survived the hurricane. I have a villa with a fence in my backyard that has 5 Village palms tress behind my fence which never get trimmed. This morning I had 48 palm fonds in my yard, on my patio roof and the walkway on the side of my house. I called Property Management this am to complain about the palm fonds that are not mine! I was told that due to the fact they are in my yard I am responsible for the clean up even though the Villages owns the palm trees, kind of understand that but I still filled an complaint and was very surprised when someone from the Villages showed up 1/2 hour later. Every storm I have to clean up these palm fonds but never this many. He was very nice but reinforced that I was responsible for the cost of the clean up but he would make a note to have an Arborist look at the palms to see if they are dying. So long story short called my landscaper who is the best, Vidal Landscaping who came today to clean up my mess. They cleaned up 48-50 fonds and then had to clean out all of my gutters due to the debris from the palms that was clogging them to the tune of $350.00. My question is does anyone have an idea how to follow up on this to maybe recroup what I paid for the clean up and to let the Villages know that the landscaper told me I probably have another 5-10 fonds that are going to come down in the next wind storm. Another clean up bill.
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$350? I’m sure your landscaper is ‘the best’ but who wouldn’t be for that price point! There used to be laws that protect people from price gouging during events like this...not saying this is the case but sure seems excessive for the work you described.