Business ProfileforNick Martin Landscape Architect

I almost never write a review but felt it necessary to help people make an informed decision when shopping around for a backyard design company and considering this individual for hire.1. This is NOT a company with all of the safeguards and protections that go with that but rather a solitary elderly gentleman approximately *****+ years old that requires a cash payment through *****. In other words, you have no protection for your investment through a credit card or company if he were to die or as in our case not deliver on the product we thought we were purchasing. You money disappears without recourse and believe me, once he has your cash you can forget a refund.2. To add to point number 1, **** is not able to deliver a modern product that is standard with other professional design services such as providing a 3d rendering of your project. Almost anyplace else will provide this for less than what you pay him for a flat drawing that is VERY hard to visualize the end result.3. Read through his documentation before signing and paying and be sure you understand the services he CANNOT provide because he will not explain that to you as a non-construction consumer. He cannot provide a design for structures attached to the home, you will have to pay a separate company to do that for which you can hire a firm that CAN for far less than **** will charge you for a 2D landscape drawing.4. He overcharges for his services, shop around. You can get far better a far better product elsewhere.5. Finally, this guy is retired and super hard to contact (read other reviews) for an appointment and once he has your money, even harder to respond or read your emails.Just make sure you shop around and know what your getting before hiring this individual, we lost money and a couple months of our time messing with this guy. VERY frustrating.