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Houston residents: If you pay a company to mow your lawn,
watch
them
from late September through early November. Some of them put
down
rye
grass seed without telling you. This keeps them busy cutting
your
lawn
year-round.

This has happened to my next-door neighbor two years in a row.
I'm
curious if this scam is done in other areas of the Gulf Coast.

Two years in a row? Sounds like your neighbor is OK with what
the
lawn
service is doing.

I don't think you understand. This is a scam numerous companies
are
running, not just one company. They get away with it because there
are
hundreds of thousands of first-time home owners in the southern US
who
don't know squat about their lawns.

Is he complaining, or is it only you?

Let's try again.

Neighbor has winter rye dumped on her lawn without her approval.
Neighbor doesn't want winter rye on her lawn.
Neighbor is now stuck paying a lawn company to cut the grass 52
weeks
every year, rather than 40 weeks out of every year.
Neighbor will now have to pay at least $240 more than she was
expecting to for lawn care this year.

O.K., let's try again!

Yes, let us. You still don't understand.

Maybe the lawn service pulled the wool over her eyes the first year,
but
she
must have been aware of the use of overseeding with annual rye the
second
year and could have prevented it and/or refused to pay for it if was
not
mentioned in the contract she signed.

Who says she's using the same company? You are assuming something I
never said.

Now, you say she can simply not pay once the rye grass is discovered.
True. However, that doesn't solve the problem - a lawn that has to be
cut once a week from December-February. She can't do it, so she's
incurred a needless expense to service a product (rye grass) she never
requested.

As I said, sounds like she wanted winter rye so she could have a
nice
green
lawn all year. Many people do.

But she doesn't.

Besides, many of my neighbors have lawn services and only those who
specify
winter rye used for overseeding in the winter get it and the
service.

But she didn't request this service. Do you understand yet?

She got a contract, or at least should have. Didn't she read that
contract
before signing it? Again, she should have!

She read the agreement. She also showed it to me a few days ago.
Nowhere does it say anything about winter rye.

If the lawn service did something, or did not do something, which is not
called out in her contract, and it cost her to lay out more money than
agreed upon, she can, and should take them to small claims court.

How does one prove this sort of thing? She didn't witness it. Few
people would. I'm not aware of many people who watch their lawn crews
while they work.

If winter rye comes up, then winter rye was planted, whether she saw it done
or not.
Did she ever consider telling the service, or better yet, sending them a
registered letter stating she does not want her lawn overseeded with winter
rye. Then if it is planted and she has to pay to have it cut, she can take
them to small claims court and sue to be rembursed for the cost of the
mowings.


Do YOU understand yet?

Yes, but I don't think you do. No one should even have to go to court
over this, which is why I am warning people.

Going to court is a nuisance, but so is being required to pay for something
you don't want and didn't ask for.


Why doesn't she just get rid of the lawn services and have you take care
of
her lawn for her?

Why should this be my responsibility?

You seem to be the only one concerned about the matter.

Shepherd