LA Development

Incredible job! We bought our home last year and the backyard was the only major project we had in mind. Rusty came out, had some ideas and gave a great price. Our yard looks amazing, and is a pleasure to use now. They installed turf and extended our patio with pavers. Took a week, and I am impressed. Thank you Rusty and Ryan, and your crew as well. I highly, highly recommend these guys.

We found LA Development at the home improvement show in July. Rusty came out and gave us a fair competitive quote within a week. He was very informative and was patient with all of our questions. We were given a date for our synthetic grass and concrete border to be installed and they were right on schedule. The employees were polite, professional and did a great job with their work and clean up.
We now have a wonderful looking front yard and couldn’t be happier! We would recommend LA Development and Rusty to anyone and we look forward to having them install our backyard in the future.

We recently contracted with LA Development for our new home landscape and couldn’t be happier with the service, price and value we received. We would and have recommended them to friends and neighbors. Right people, price, quality and timeframe commitment… great people to deal with!

I found LA Development at the recent Home Show. Rusty came out with a variety of artificial turf samples prepped to show how it would look when installed. He quoted me a price that was fixed and final. He and Amy and the install crew were great to work with. My lawn is gorgeous! I want to spend time out in the backyard again — even in the August heat!

After several quotes we decided to go with LA based upon price and the fact that we like to support small business. Wrong choice! Workers showed up day late, owner never called me back, workers did not go over job with me before starting project resulting in a lot of miscommunication between everyone. Took two weeks to complete job, after several days of no show. I would have rather used a company that cost more but took pride in their work and their customers. Lesson learned, and would not refer them business based upon the nightmare we experienced.

We called LA Development as a referral from a friend and got in touch with Rusty who came out to our house to give us a quote and help us with some design aspects of our backyard remodel. All we had when we bought our house was a 10’x20’ covered patio, one oleander and a bunch of dead grass/​dirt. After getting a few quotes, we felt most comfortable with LA Development and their numbers also met our budget.
We went ahead and had them put in about 700sf of sod surrounded by 18 tons of granite/​gravel and about 16 – 18 plants including one large tree. Rusty took us out to the nursery where we could pick out plants and see what we were picking at the same time. This really helped seeing the colors and with Rusty’s knowledge of the plants, helped us pick low water, non-​shedding plants for easy maintenance. We also went to look at the granite/​gravel where they buy from so we could pick out the exact color we wanted in person.
We chose to go with a paver border around the new grass which they put in much nicer pavers than they had quoted for us which they chose because it matched our existing travertine tile on our patio. We had all this done last October and unfortunately with how hot it was when the plants went in and the few days of freezing temps shortly after, we lost several plants. We contacted LA Development who was more than happy to come back out and replant the plants that didn’t make it. They also fixed a couple new drippers they had installed that had gotten clogged and did a little repair on the grass.
Now, just a couple months after all their repairs, our backyard is coming to life! It has so much color, almost every plant is in full bloom and our water bill isn’t even that much. They installed new irrigation in the backyard and front and our front yard plants are flourishing now as well. I would highly recommend using LA Development, especially if you want artificial turf because what I’ve seen from facebook, they do some amazing work with that stuff and even install new pools! We will definitely use them the next chance we get!

LA-​Development really is a good as it gets. I needed to have over 1,400 sq ft of pavers done in the front yard, back yard, and around a swimming pool. LA-​Development saved me from the shoddy work of an unlicensed contractor that did the demolition job and then was holding me hostage for an additional $ 13,500.00 and an estimated time frame for another 3 weeks!
Ryan Leonard over at LA-​Development came over shook his head and promised to fix it at less than half the price I was quoted by «crooked contractor». Wednesday, their crew came in. I was impressed by the the LA-​Development shirts and the immediacy at which they went to work. Within 6 hours they had far repaired and surpassed what the unlicensed contractor had messed up.
**This was when I realized had I let the unlicensed contractor keep going, I would have ended up with a flooded house at the first rain**
Within two days 85% of the work was finished except for the fine detail. Now on the third day I am eagerly waiting for Ryan Leonard to come and pick up the check so I can thank him for a most outstanding job. The work of LA-​Development was far beyond my expectations or what I could have even imagined what the finished project would look like. Once again I am proud of my yard and home and I know I have a surface that will last generations. I have a few more projects planned and it is good to know a contractor I can trust!
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***Note… never ever use an unlicensed contractor. It will always cost you more in the long run. Had I gone with LA Development in the first place, I would have saved $ 6,000.00 that the unlicensed contractor has absconded with.

I would like to split this review to 2 categories: product/​pricing and service.
Let’s start from the beginning. I got their number from the synthetic grass store that makes artificial grass. I was given 2 numbers and owner and sales person. I called and left a message with the owner but received no response. I proceeded to call the sales person and set up an appointment.
When he arrived, he was every nice and brought a few samples.
We set up an appointment to install the turf for a great price of $ 5.95 installed per sqft. All inclusive.
On the day of the install, 3 workers arrived and began doing the job.
I had asked to trim my lemon tree to make space for playing. Against my wishes, the workers trimmed much more than I wanted.
During the work, a fellow that did not introduce himself kept walking over and talking to the crew. After the job was done this fellow called and said that he was the project manger and his job was to ensure 100% customer satisfaction.
Upon looking over the work we saw a minor thing that needed fixing, he said that he would come back and do it himself within a few days– this was a lie!
My wife was a little upset after the job from the over trimming if the tree and other small issue which wasn’t fixed. She placed a call to the sales rep who sold it to us. He said he would call back but never did.
We just decided not to pursue it and be happy with the product which is great.
Although overall we are extremely happy with the product and price, the service had much to be desired.