Ideally, when you hire a local tree service you get a fair quote, the job gets completed on time and you're happy with the completion. That's exactly what would happen when you call a local tree service company in the perfect world! But we don't live in the perfect world. We live in a capitalist country where everyone is really just in it for themselves (that's a topic for another type of blog!). It's real though - there's getting a fair quote and waiting 8 weeks for the job to be completed. It happens all the time.
Getting a Fair Estimate from a Tree Service can be more difficult than you'd think. Many Tree Service Estimators will be use big words, talk down their competition and employ high pressure sales tactics to take an upfront deposit. Sometimes those people who seem the nicest during the "Free Estimate" are the guys that will be ripping you off the worst. On the other hand there's friendly Tree Service Companies that don't use pressure and give a fair price to their potential customers. However, one of their biggest fears is that they'll be undercut by what's known as a pick up truck tree service.