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For $400, he was robbing you. A good neighbor would have given you some sort of deal. You did the right thing.
He had asked if we wanted our trees trimmed for $400 and I said no thank you and today a truck full of vatos came by and told me they would do it for $175 so I said yes. Well the neighbor stood out in front of his garage and just glared at me while I was talking to them and then stood there and watched the whole time they did their job. They stacked up all the trimmings ready for the brush pickup and raked the yard and left.
I don't think he is a happy camper....but I am.
Am I a bad neighbor?
For $400, he was robbing you. A good neighbor would have given you some sort of deal. You did the right thing.
Uhhhh no. You're neighbor is just being butthurt. It was $225 cheaper so I don't blame you at all. If he asks, tell him the price difference.
Yeah, I'm sure he'll be over later and ask how much I paid.
You're not a bad neighbor, but be careful of him sneaking over in the middle of the night and planting a bunch of huge healthy trees in your yard as revenge.
Just give him a sack, he'll get over it.
smart shopper!
He's just pissed cuz he has some twisted idea that you should have some kind of loyalty to him because you are neighbors . If you ever talk to him about it, he'll have no choice but to admit you did the right thing
I think he is critiquing the job they did because he's outside talking to his wife and pointing at our house. I'm about to go out and pickup the mail...
ehhhhhh, maybe you should have told your neighbor the vatos are gonna do the job for $175...............maybe your neighbor would have dropped to $150
I'm sure the vatos would have matched his offer.
I just talked to him and he said it was a good deal but then said "they could have done a better job and trimmed here and cut there.." but I told him I was happy. Thing is that the vatos did two more houses down the street as well. They also gave me their card, which was a piece of scrap paper, and told me they'd give me a good deal to the trees in the backyard as well.
I'm doing my part to stimulate the economy!!!
capitalism 101
Well, unless I know the 'vato' work crew was legal, I wouldn't have used that service. You know what the likelihood is of them being legal workers is?
Shame on you for depriving Americans of work in this economy and paying illegal aliens.
Think of all the bad things he can tell his friends now about you too.
you just gave money to terrorist
Well, he did have an official "Ruben Zapata Tree Service" sign on the side of his truck and he spoke English but I threw out some Spanglish to seal the deal.
I wouldn't have cared if they were from Yugoslavia as long as they did the job for a fair price.
Damn...am I now a bad American too!?!?
The vato's usually do better work. A friend of mine owns a fencing company and has tried to use white boys. He's never had one last more than 2 days.
Yeah you're neighbor is definitely butthurt if he's pointing out all the "mistakes" they made.
JOE CHALUPA SUPPORTS OUTSOURCING AMERICAN JOBS!!!
He steals american jobs and gives them to illegal immigrants, who no doubt send the money back to mexico!
JoeChalupa, you are not behaving like an american!
Let's see, same job for less....sounds to me like the American way.
Sounds like a Fox News O'Reilly or Hannity promo.
lol ;p
Never do business with friends or neighbors.
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