Maricopa Meadows had the help of H&N because Maricopa Meadows employs H&N as their primary landscaper. Senita doesn't employ H&N. If Senita employed H&N, then we could probably ask for their help. H&N was very giving by offering their services for free. Our HOA is going to clean up 66 houses in the next 2-3 weeks. I drove through the neighborhood today and we need about 300 front yards cleaned. It is truly unbelievable the condition these homeowners / renters will allow their front yards to look like. These people should move back to apartments where they don't have to take care of a front yard. I want to knock on all of their doors and ask them how lazy they are and do they have any pride in where they live? The answer would obviously be "very lazy" and "none."

I already started a thread on here hypothetically asking home owners in Senita if they would step up and clean the neighborhood. Most people would rather see the HOA pay for all weed infested properties to be cleaned by the HOA. I don't blame them. Well most peple don't realize the HOA would go broke doing that, so it's not a long term answer. I already maintain my bank owned neighbor's house and mine. I am going to be taking care of another neighbor too in the next couple weeks because he moved out to do a short sale. His weeds will be waist high in about a month, so I better stock up on the weed killer and buy myself some new leather gloves to pick tumbleweeds.

I think there should be an amendment to the CC&R's that EVERY house in Senita needs to get sprayed for weeds (pre-emergent) twice a year and it is paid in your HOA dues. Obviously then the HOA would pay a company to spray every home site in this neighborhood twice a year and that would keep the weeds down everywhere. If the HOA raised my $62/mo bill to $67/mo to maintain a weed free community, I would do it in a heart beat. Would anyone else be okay with a $5/mo increase in HOA to have your home and every other home in the neighborhood sprayed for weeds? Of course this is a hypothetical estimate, but you get the point.

Posted By ForensicUnit on 04/22/2008 9:53 PM
The main reason not to, is because the HOA voted on Monday to direct H&N Landscaping to clean up the 66 yards that continue to be in violation. They were instructed to do so as soon as possible. Tim and Aaron were made aware of the job request late Monday, and I'm assuming they will be on it ASAP. Let's see how things look after that.

-Graham

There was an HOA meeting? Did we bid this job out? Was our current landscaper fired? Was this organized by Kriss? Info please.

Thanks Graham. I was just concerned about any binding contracts that might be in effect. I didn't consider that this is a non-standard project. And I agree that we should use LOCAL vendors as much as possible. Look forward to seeing the results. Maybe post some before and after pictures of the worst houses? Kind of like a "Hall of Shame". Of course you would blur out any identifying house numbers and such.

Take a look at the common areas in the  Meadows. Senita looks alot better. Why risk paying them to clean up 66 properties to "see the quality of their work" Why not give them a few jobs to start with.

BRAVO Graham! Well said!

Yes Graham, I believe we have met

Hello everyone,

Just got off the phone with 85239 and finally got H&N back up so we can post to this forum.  We appreciate all of the publicity that the forum gives us, but on some occasions people speak without having all of the information.  We want to let everyone in the community know that we at H&N are trying everything that we can to help out whenever we can.  We helped out with the Maricopa Meadows cleanup free of charge because they asked us to and because we maintain the HOA.  We have let Senita & Kriss Lindburg know what we would charge to take over the maintenance of Senita.  We also said that if they chose to switch to us that Senita would get 100 FREE front yard cleanups per year.  This is something that Senita will be needing quite often and would be a savings of $15,000 per year at our prices or $25,000 on up for some other companies.  We know that Maricopa Meadows does not not look great in their grass areas and as some have mentiond it is because of not overseeding and most importantly the lack of water. 

Not many people know that Maricopa Meadows has had to keep their water off for the last couple of months due to the installation of lighting throughout the community.  The electric company dug trenches through the irrigation system that have required extreme repair.  Since then the amount of dirt that got into the system has clogged much of the irrigation system of the 54 acres of grass.  We have been working tediously to get the system back into great condition.  The grass should be looking good in 2 to 3 weeks.  We also have to watch the area closely because we have found that when the kids get out of school they will kick over & break the sprinkler heads off at an alarming rate.  For instance yesterday 5 heads were broke right when school got out. 

I hope that this helps anyone understand what really is going on.  There is more but it is getting boring to talk about.  Either way when you look at H&N as a company it would be great that before you judge our work based on a certain community that you have all of the facts.  We as a compny give back to this community as much as possible.  We have supported many causes in the community inluding the Rotary Club, The City of Maricopa itself, and others.  We try to do our part to make Maricopa a better place to live.  Thanks much to all of our supporters.

Thanks for reading - H&N Landscape

And thank you for the input to the topic. Hopefully a local company will get the contract when it is available again.  I think our common areas are very well maintained now. But if they can receive the same care at the same, or lower price by a local company that would be fantastic. Good Luck.

Here are some pictures of the cleanups that we have started.

Thanks, H&N

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No beef what so ever. It was a sweet deal nothing wrong with that if you are saving HOA dollars..

My main concern was how the current landscaper would want to continue doing a great job when these extra jobs are no longer going to them.

I wish H&N all the best and look forward to seeing the photos.