I want to tell you about a job in Lively that, halfway through, had the homeowner texting me photos asking what the hell was going on. The lawn looked destroyed. Raked-up bare patches everywhere. Soil exposed. The nice-looking green parts they’d had before — gone. And from where they were standing, it looked like we’d … Read more
Let’s say I bought a house in Sudbury tomorrow. Hanmer, Chelmsford, Garson, wherever. And when I walk the backyard for the first time, I see what I see on a lot of properties I quote — long, patchy grass, bare spots, thatch buildup, maybe some standing water in a low corner, weeds filling in wherever … Read more
I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. I want to tell you about a property in Hanmer. The homeowner — I’ll call him Dave — called me in late April. He’d bought the house two years earlier. The lawn had looked decent when they moved in. First winter, … Read more
I want to tell you about a property I pulled up to in late May a couple of years ago. The call came in from a homeowner who’d just bought the house the previous fall. He hadn’t seen the lawn in summer — bought it in October when everything looked dormant and okay. By the … Read more