Ever notice how your neighbor's lawn looks like a golf course while yours resembles the Sahara Desert by mid-July? Yeah, me too. And honestly, it used to drive me absolutely crazy. Last summer, I had a client in Westwood who called me in tears. Not kidding - actual...
Picture this: It's 2 AM on a Sunday, and you wake up to the sound of water gushing somewhere in your house. Your heart starts pounding as you stumble out of bed, following that dreaded sound. By the time...
People think air ducts are just hollow tubes. Clean metal pathways for air, right? Nope. They're more like the junk drawer of your HVAC system. Last month, I cleaned a system in a nice suburban home. Family of four,...
After two decades of emergency callouts - usually at 2 AM during storms - I can tell you this: The trees that fall and destroy homes aren't usually the dead ones everyone worries about. It's the "healthy" ones nobody...
My phone rang at 11 PM last Tuesday. Homeowner in tears. She'd just paid $12,000 for mold remediation, and guess what? The mold was already coming back. Twelve. Thousand. Dollars. Want to know the worst part? The problem that...
Three weeks ago, I watched a "tree service" crew absolutely butcher a beautiful 60-year-old maple in my neighborhood. The homeowner? She'd hired them because they were $500 cheaper than everyone else. That maple's dead now. And she's out $1,800...
Last month, I watched a neighbor shell out $895 for air duct cleaning that should've cost half that. The worst part? She thought she got a deal because the company's "original price" was $1,200. Look, I've been in homes...
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