I would like all opinions on this please. In December my plow guy hit the back corner of my house with his plow. Not with his truck, but the plow on the front of it. He did this about 6am. The only morning I have ever heard him come by. The next day I called him, and told him what he had done, and that he needed to come out and take a look. He came by, and tried to act like he had no idea he had done it. Here is a picture of the damage.
He said he would fix it, and I said that he didn't have to rush because the weather was bad. We have had several beautiful, warm days where this could have been fixed, but it still has not been done. It even got so warm before Christmas that every bit of snow melted except the snow banks, and those melted quite a bit.
So here is the thing. I received an "invoice" in the mail from him the other day reminding me that the other $250 I owe him for the Winter snow removal is due on March 1st. Now, if I haven't said it before, this guy is not the sharpest crayon in the box. What I propose to do, since I most likely won't be home on the 1st, is to leave an envelope with his name on it taped to my front door. In this envelope will be a current, signed check in the amount of $150, and a second in the amount of $100 (because that is how much I think it will cost me to call someone myself). The second check will be post dated to April 1st, and not signed. I will enclose a letter telling him that once he has repaired my house, or had someone do the job, I will either sign the second check, or simply write him a new one with everything as it should be. What do you think I should do? And let me add, I have been unhappy with his plowing job the entire Winter, and once left a message with attitude that he needed to come back and do a proper job. Also, I have to deal with this guy as long as it continues to snow for this Winter. OPINION????
