Best in Phoenix AZ

With an acre lot and 7 neglected palo verde trees our property needed a lot of work. Francisco came out and did a beautiful job trimming all of the trees, weeding,  trimming bushes, etc. He is very easy to work with and attentive to details.

After getting several bids & opinions I went with Best Deal Landscaping.  Dennis is very knowledgeable and came up with some great design ideas.  The crews did a great job installing the new pavers & grass turf; Dennis did everything and more to make sure we were satisfied with their work and always keep us up to date with the progress & scheduling.  Bottom line the yard & driveway look great and this was a good experience & when we need more landscaping Best Deal Landscaping will be my 1st call.

They came out at short notice and did a great job at a very reasonable price. I would definitely recommend Santan land management for landscaping.

An awning company we worked with hired Desert Bloom to build a brick wall around the edge of our new concrete patio. They were terrific to work with. They cleaned up the area when they were finished. Very personable. They did fantastic work. They did show up a day later than they said which no one informed us about. However I fault the inept awning company in not informing us.

I hired Giardinelli landscape to re-landscape my front yard after seeing the beautiful job they did in my neighbor's yard. Annette is a very talented landscape artist and did a beautiful job on my yard as well.

They left business card on our door. Decided to give a try. Trimmed 8 bushes and two trees, priced reasonable. I was impressed with their work and was quick. Will call back again.

I had jake come remove a block wall in my yard and spread gravel, it looks amazing and he did a great job! He showed up on time and had great prices.

This is going to be a long review. In short, the Mesquite team was a 10/10.

We had recently purchased our first home, and it being a new construction home it came with a completely blank backyard. It's not huge, but we felt like there was a good amount of space to take advantage of.

We drafted up a wish list and a budget, and my fiancée and I sat in the backyard with string to map out a general layout that we felt worked well for us. We then reached out to 10+ landscaping companies to get quotes for our yard. Some never came, some ignored our requests, one in particular didn't even spend 30 seconds in my yard before sending me a quote. Mesquite, however, was different.

Within a day of our request, Lynn reached out to us to schedule a consultation. He came on time, *wore a mask* and *maintained a distance* - something none of the other companies did. He asked us a few questions about what we were looking for and we took him to see the yard. He carefully measured the areas we had laid out and provided a few suggestions to better utilize the space. After measurements, he asked what plant preferences we had and was on his way.

Later that week he set a zoom meeting with us to go over a 3D rendering of his plan. There we saw an accurate representation of what our yard would look like and we made a few tweaks here and there. After that was done, we really wanted to look at our options to make sure it fit within our budget. Lynn was more than happy to provide different options (sod vs turf, covering our concrete patio with pavers vs leaving it bare, etc). In the end we chose turf and completely covering the patio and couldn't be happier with the end result.

Some other things I was impressed with (during planning):
- They were the only company to recommend adding underground drainage to the yard.
- They added gas stubs to the yard for a reasonable price
- They added a tree to our plans only a week out from the build

Their quote came in basically on par with everything else (honestly, a little cheaper once you consider the other guys didn't provide plants, drainage, or gas lines).

Month goes by and the day was finally here for the build. Unfortunately, the crew got tied up with the previous days project and couldn't make it to our yard. Fortunately, Lynn notified us the day before and said this would only cause a one day delay. Sure enough, they were there on the newly scheduled day at 5:30AM and worked HARD until 5:00PM. We were assigned Juan (the owners) crew and couldn't be more pleased with their work. They ran into some issues (concrete overpour from the foundation, concrete under our gates) but resolved them quickly. They were also kind enough to help me bury some conduit in the front yard (for a future project) since they had to dig trenches for irrigation anyway.

At the end of the day the owners nephew gave a walkthrough of the yard and made sure it was to our liking. They then cleaned up everything and washed the house, driveway, and street so no dust was left behind.

I can't speak highly of this company enough. I was pretty nervous as this was a lot of money (for me) and my first time working with a contractor, but they really did a bang up job. I would definitely recommend them to anybody looking to get their yard done. We've had neighbors comment that it looks great and completely transformed the home.

They responded quickly to my inquiries about lawn maintenance and with pictures were able to give me a quote. The whole process was smooth and my yard looks great!

I had other contractors say they couldn't come out for months, others said they couldn't get the material we wanted. Virgil came out in 2 weeks with the products we loved. His pricing was reasonable and the job was done with fine precision. Absolutely recommend to anyone.

Thanks Custom Outlooks, for wasting my time.

My project consists of tearing out an old deck in the back yard, removing a large tree and 16 much smaller trees, forming and backfilling a new raised deck area with fill, and paving over it with travertine, and installing pavers on the east side of the house in addition to trimming some large trees.

My project is not a 6-figure job but for damn sure, it's a decent 5-figure job for a contractor with enough integrity and business sense to follow through.
Having kept a Custom Outlooks advertisement and business card from a prior home & garden show, I set up an appointment with Jesus to come to my home on June 3.  

Jesus arrived and I explained the project to him when he arrived. He was professional, although on the downside of friendly. But, I wasn't looking for personality; I was looking for skills and value so I wasn't too concerned. We chatted about the project and he promised me a quote the following week. It's now been six weeks since I met with Jesus and have never heard diddly squat from him or anyone else at Custom Outlooks. Needless to say, I've gotten other estimates and permanently crossed Custom Outlooks off my list. They've wasted their time and mine. And now, they'll have the benefit of showing how unreliable they are to any customers foolish enough to ignore this review.  

One other note--which I'm putting in the category of Just Plain Weird: After Jesus and I talked in my back yard about my project, I left him alone to finalize measurements, photos etc. (I'm not totally sure what he was doing out there). I came inside and sat on the couch to wait for him after telling him to just come in the back door when he was finished and I'd let him out the front door. There is no other way out of my back yard except to come through the house. There is a double gate--which is locked at all times. So other than coming to the back door and walking back through my house, the only way out of the back yard is literally, to jump the fence.  Through the back windows, I saw Jesus walking around for a few minutes after I came inside...and then, I didn't. After about 10 minutes of not seeing any more movement in the back yard, I walked outside and found he'd vanished!. I checked in front of my house, and sure enough, his vehicle was gone. I'm not sure when he left or why he didn't simply come to the back door as I'd instructed. Maybe he knew he was going to ghost me and wanted to run off without any insincere pleasantries and without promising me--again--that he'd send me an estimate. Either way, it's just weird as hell that instead of coming back through the house, or at least knocking on the French doors that lead to our back yard, he chose to skulk off without a word by JUMPING THE FENCE. What a freakin' oddball!

Perhaps the current state of the AZ home building and remodeling industry makes companies like Custom Outlooks think they only have to take jobs from folks with a blank dirt lot and a blank checkbook so they can soak people on high-dollar, fancy-schmancy  jobs that include lots of design work and markup. But if that's the case, why not just tell me? I'd much rather have had Jesus tell me something like: based on the size of your job, we'd have a really hard time squeezing it in among our larger projects so you'll probably be better off contacting another company, vs. ghosting me after wasting my time and promising me an estimate that never came.
 
I get it: construction trades--including landscapers--are living the high life right now. Housing starts in the Phoenix area are up and the remodeling industry is booming. There's tons of work and prices are hugely inflated. Lots of contractors believe they can pick and choose what they think are the cream of the crop jobs and treat everyone else like crap without even so much as an explanation, much less an apology for not doing what they said they'd do. But if Custom Outlooks really wants to convince people they're reliable, they should be bright enough to know that boom times come and go and livin' the contractor high life won't last forever--unlike online reviews, which DO...

I hired this company to perform a front and backyard cleanup, remove weeds.  I was very specific to not remove any shrubs or cacti and a price was agreed upon to remove weeds and clean up my property.  The conversation was in Spanish as he said it was easier for him to understand and I am fluent.  I got home from work to find him using a lawn mower to remove the weeds and he had plowed over all of my shrubs and small cacti, exactly the opposite of the instructions.  Not a weed wacker or rake in site and he was using a gas blower to try and remove all of the debris he had created.  When I approached him and reminded him that he was only suppose to remove the weeds, he proceeded to tell me it must have been a misunderstanding on his part.  Valencia-Torres actually admitted to having made a mistake.  He was just trying to get the work done as quickly as possible.  When I asked him about the backyard that, thank goodness, had not been touched he lied and stated it was not included in the price but that I could hire him for biweekly or monthly maintenance.  He would slowly finish the job but only if I hired him at 100 dollars a visit.  As if after he destroyed my front yard I would be stupid enough to hire him for any further work.  Needless to say I had to hire another landscaper who was shocked at the destroyed  yard that was filled with stumps and shredded greenery. The new landscaper actually used a weed wacker and raked like you are supposed to. Now I have to spend twice as much money to replace everything Valencia Torres mowed over.  Each young shrub is costing me 25 to 30 dollars and with about 3/4 of an acre he destroyed (I am on about an acre and a half), it will not be cheap.  Valencia Torres mowed over my entire front and side yard so it's estimated at 2000 dollars of damage not including the labor to put it in. When I phoned the business number that originally was used to call me, they said there was nothing they could do and even threatened to remove any bad reviews I would give them.  Do yourselves a favor and avoid this company.