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.

Hire these people right now. They are professional, clean and on schedule. Hired them for my personal house but now they do all my back yard projects for my flip homes. Pat and Dennis put in amazing work.

I was so very pleased with this company.  They responded to my initial request promptly, came out the same day to review the intended project and state the cost, and came back three days later to take down the queen palm and dig out the stump.  They were prompt, thorough, polite and did everything they said they would do.  They did a wonderful job of cleaning up, and thanked me for choosing their company over any others.  It was a free estimate, and very reasonable pricing.  I cannot speak highly enough about them, and would be very happy to recommend them to any friends and/or family.  They were really great.

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.

These guys usually leave cards in my front door but one day I was home and decided to get a quote from them to cut my very tall (24ft) Oleanders.  They gave me a good price and did it on the spot.  I was a little worried other company wanted to cut them shorter than what I wanted and  were going to use ladders that would mess up the surrounding plants hence the reason why I hadn't done it in a while.  These guys are professionals, he just got up on the block fence and gently lowered every branch he cut....didn't mess up anything else and hardly any mess went into the neighbor's yard.  Overall very happy with the job they did and will use them 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.

We found Mesquite through our neighbor who used them to do their pavers and artificial turf. I was really impressed with how responsive the company is. We worked with Miguel to come up with some ideas. He came and drew everything out in our backyard with spray paint so we could really understand how our space would be used. He gave a few suggestions that we incorporated into our plan. I ended up changing up a few things and had him come back out three times to redraw my ideas. He was very patient with my indecisiveness. I had consultations from two other companies and both took a long time to get back to me. The other companies also said that our project would take as long as three weeks to finish! I know from past experience that having workers at your home for many days can be frustrating. Mesquite landscaping finished my whole backyard and frontyard in four days. They have a large crew working from 6-4:30 every day. They worked so hard and only took breaks for lunch.  They even planted shrubs and had irrigation running to plants that I had purchased on my own through Home Depot. Our project included natural grass, gravel, pavers, tree and shrub planting, landscape lighting, a propane fire pit, and retaining walls. It's only been a week and I already have gotten compliments. I even see people stop in front of my house to take a look at the improvements. The price was very reasonable. I am happy with their customer service, prices, work ethic, and responsiveness. I would highly recommend them to others.

Great service, great price, great work and a quick response time. What else can you ask for? I highly recommend Chavez LawnCare.

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.