Dear Editor,

I live in Broadview and there is a person going around getting jobs by cutting down trees in the neighborhood. His name is MATT.

He has a real sob story about his house that was burned down and lost everything he had. So he gives you a reduced rate to cut down the trees. He was asking 20 to 50 percent down and the balance on finishing. He was working on three houses at once. I was house number three.

He would cut off the limbs and leave the stumps. Thus the limbs were all over the yard and made a terrible mess. He was working on my two trees and had one down and I was under the impression that he would finish up in my yard the same day.

I had to go out and would not be back by the time he finished so I paid him in advance. When I returned home he was gone and the yard was terrible. I called the phone number he gave me and he said that he would be back the next day to finish. He also said that on Friday he would rent a chipper and clean up all the yards.

That was on March 28. He will not return the phone calls and has not been back to finish. He never came back and left all three of us with a real mess.

Gregg from Ballard Tree came by and stopped and gave me a quote on finishing up the mess in the yard, finish taking down the stump that was approximately 7-9 feet tall and clean up the yard.

He was really fair in his pricing for the clean up. Besides cutting up the trees and stacking them alongside the house. His two employees are real gentlemen. Ballard Tree needs to have recognition for his help.

I just want others to be on the look out for this person so that they will not get burned. Hire a legitimate company for help. Gregg is the owner of the Ballard Tree Company and is also a retired Seattle Firefighter and is a real kind and generous person.

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Broadview