Seeking yard cleanup person/service

[trysha.livejournal.com]

Greeting davis square,

I'm seeking two services.

Yard Work:
* Trim Hedges
* Remove three to four foot+ ragweed and other weeds.
* Pull down overgrowth.

I've asked several services, but most garden people are crunchy-organic-make-it-pretty goodness ($$$$$). Not "just clean the overgrown crap up please" ($).

Inside the house:
* Previous resident has been a pet-astrophy there.
* The basement smells awful, and was used as a litterbox by the previous resident's cat.
I need a cleaning service that can deal with this sort of thing.
* Carpets need steam cleaning, etc...

(I've seen lots of advice in other posts fixing this yourself, but i'm not currently in a physical state to be able to do this myself - alas. I am seeking to hire someone)

This is time sensitive.

Comments

[emcicle.livejournal.com]

for the first job, I suggest looking into Task Rabbit. In case you aren't familiar, once you sign up, you post a request for services and people will respond with offers. We've used it successfully for help in getting items from Ikea (no car) and moving large furniture.

[herbert42.livejournal.com]

Husband of emcicle here.
If you sign up with Taskrabbit following this link, you get $10 off your first task, and I get $10 of my next task.

http://taskrabbit.com/PAL/1678

That said, I'd totally recommend them even with out the promise of 10 bucks for referral.

[trysha.livejournal.com]

Thanks guys!

I just signed up for taskrabbit (with your code) and posted the one job - we'll see how it goes.

[trysha.livejournal.com]

I love this service!! Thank you!

[ron_newman]

I added the 'housecleaning' tag. It may have old posts with information useful to you.

[vibrantabyss.livejournal.com]

You can try Jennifer's Landscaping (617) 718 1796 - she'll do cleanup at a reasonable hourly rate.

[rethcir.livejournal.com]

With regards to the overgrown yard, I'm in a similar bind, and probably just going to take care of it myself (since it's a rental, I don't want to blow a ton of money on it). If you find someone good and cheap, please come back and post! Otherwise, if I have success, maybe I'll let you know if I feel up to helping you out.

[trysha.livejournal.com]

I went with taskrabbit, the link above.

A guy named Marc got my bid, and did an amazing job for cheap.

I'm using taskrabbit from now on.