Steve’s Mowing

I unfortunately had a bad experience with Steve’s. I like that Steve’s bags the grass and uses small mowers but the guys were so careless, they hacked up my fence with the line trimmer and dented my lamp post with the mower. I expected better. Steve was very professional to deal with but his response was that his company just couldn’t do a better job.

We have had Steves for more than 5 years and are more pleased than ever! They are so detailed in their work and flexible. During the summer when it’s hot and dry we often don’t need them because the lawn hasn’t grown. Just call and leave them a message and they skip us for the week or two. This year because my husband and I are disabled we needed them to mulch our yard. Our yard hadn’t been mulched in a few years and there were weeds growing in the garden areas. Not only did they dig up the weeds but they prepared the areas and the much was thick, deep and beautiful! I can’t thank them enough for making our yard once again beautiful! I couldn’t recommend them any more!

During the 3 years I had Steve’s Mowing Steve’s service got progressively worse.
First year they were great; however, the next two years they would consistently not trim sections of the yard and I even caught them billing for weeks that they were too busy and did not show. Yep, they apologized and corrected the billing, but they really should not bill if they do not show.
By the third year (last year) my side yard and driveway near my car-​port became gnarled with saplings because of lack of trimming and mowing, and even some of the side yard looked unkempt and overgrown. I had to threaten them with a better business bureau case to get them to fix it.

Very Disappointing.
Although they don’t insist upon a seasonal contract, they do insist on coming EVERY.SINGLE.WEEK unless explicitly told not to. My grass just doesn’t grow that fast. Other services are much more flexible. It is a real hassle trying to rememer to call them every other week to cancel the next week’s service.
My house is on a gentle hill with a walk-​out basement. Steve’s Mowing was fine with mowing the flat accessible part of my lawn in the front (ie the part I can easily mow for free), but tended to cut corners and «forget» to carry the lawn mower down the steps to the back to mow the backyard (ie the part I’d rather pay someone else to do). Unless I was there to watch them, they would try to just swing a weed-​wacker around every now and then and charge the same for mowing. I’d end up with uneven patches of grass in the backyard and the remaining rogue dandilions always gave them away.
Then there were the leaves. Their idea of dealing with leaves was to blow them all into my flowerbeds around my lawn and then later charge me by the hour to remove those very same leaves from those flowerbeds. Mulching leaves while mowing the lawn seems to be an alien concept, perhaps because it takes longer.
And unlike the other review, I had poison ivy in my back yard and they neither spotted it nor offered to do anything about it (probably because they spend so little time back there).
Lastly, just as they often «forgot» to mow my backyard and then charged me for it in the past, they recently «forgot» to aerate my back yard as well. This was the final straw. They didn’t even bother to move the hose in the middle of the yard before they left. Instead, they just sprinkled seeds around and ran off. Again, paying someone else to carry the heavy equipment down to my backyard and mow/​aerate was the VERY POINT of hiring them in the first place. If it were easy, I’d do it myself — for free.
There seems to be a serious disconnect between services charged and services rendered by Steve’s Mowing and I feel like their crew has cut one too many corners in my yard. Other lawn services actually do what they’re paid to do for the same price.

Used them to mow my lawn this summer. Very good flat price per mow, no contract for the whole season (unlike other companies). They also spotted some poison ivy in my yard and killed/​removed it for a low price. Would highly recommend.

I’m from Florida, and had a bit of sticker shock, however they take great care of our lawn, answer all my questions regarding plant/​lawn care.