CustomerHello?
JoeHello, is this Mr. Norse?
JoeThis is Joe.
CustomerYeah, Joe. Are you the one texting me?
JoeI just texted you just a minute ago.
CustomerOkay.
JoeAnd have you talked to some other tree guys?
CustomerI think I've talked with your company
Customerabout a month ago,
Customerbecause they asked me to send pictures, and I sent pictures,
JoeOK.
Customerbut I've
Customernever heard anything back. Are you local and not still?
JoeYes, we sure are.
JoeSo let me just see if I can refresh your memory.
JoeDid you talk to a guy named Cowboy or okay, well, tell me about your trees.
CustomerI can't remember.
CustomerHe had to go outside,
JoeI'll help you with it.
Customerhe had to go outside
Customerand take different pictures of the trees,
Customerwhich is a lot of trouble.
CustomerAnd I sent them to him, but he never got back with me.
CustomerOr exact, what is the name of your company?
JoeSo did you say you had a lot of trouble taking pictures?
CustomerWell, to me is a lot of trouble to have to go through that.
CustomerYou know, it's hard to get a 30 foot tree in one picture
Customerand then take pictures of how round they are.
JoeOkay.
CustomerWhat about the last, what's the name of your company?
JoeThe name of the company is the certified arborist tree service where we've been in
JoeNashville for several, for many years. I don't want to say forever, just about 10
Joeyears.
CustomerOkay, what part of that sort are you in?
JoeWell, you know, where we're at is we moved our office, you know,
Joein our home place up there toward, um, um, in the Northern part.
JoeWhat happened is, uh, my name is Joe Lombardo.
JoeI was the owner of the company and I've moved up here to Salt Lake City, Utah,
CustomerOh, okay.
Joecompany that run, the man that runs the company, his name is Mike
JoeMcDonald.
JoeHe's actually purchased a company from me.
JoeAnd so I'm just taking calls for him because I have a lot of experience.
Customerokay.
JoeI know a lot about trees and doing it for 40 years.
JoeAnd so I'm just trying to help out and I'm, you know, so
CustomerWell, I kind of, I don't see how you can give me a price over the phone,
Customerbut these are two trees,
Customerthey're about a foot in diameter,
Customerthey're about 30 foot tall,
Customerand they're about 15 foot from my house,
Customerand they're both dead.
CustomerThey look strong, they look, they look strong, they look good, but I know they are both dead.
Joeyeah, so,
Joeso do you just want them pruned or you want to take
Joethem down?
JoeYeah.
CustomerNo, take them down.
JoeOkay.
JoeI'm trying to take if I can hear you better.
CustomerSo how could you give a price without looking at them?
JoeOh, now, now I can hear you.
JoeI, I fixed the audio on my phone.
CustomerOh, okay.
JoeNow I won't have to sound like I don't have a brain cell.
JoeOkay.
JoeSo, so you said you have to be, so I kind of need you to go over it again if you will.
JoeI'll make sure we got it.
CustomerOkay.
JoeAnd you just need, you want to get them trimmed
Joeor you want an estimate to see if they're in good health?
JoeAll they're dead, okay.
CustomerNo, they are dead.
CustomerThey are definitely, they are dead.
CustomerThey're about 30 feet tall,
Customermaybe a little more.
CustomerThey're about 12 inches in diameter and they're about 15 foot from the edge of
Customermy house.
JoeOkay.
CustomerNormally I live in the woods, lots of trees.
CustomerSo normally when they're dead, I just let them fall. And once they fall,
CustomerI cut them up and take care of it then.
CustomerBut these two are too close to the house for me to try to even cut them.
JoeAll right. So if you don't mind that, you know, rednecks know how to take these trees down.
JoeAnd so here's how we do it. When a person wants to cut and leave, like if you just want to have
Joethe trees cut down and leave them or they lay on or cut them up yourself, we do that. So what we
CustomerYeah.
CustomerYeah.
Joedo though is we don't come out there and like a bunch of knit widths, we actually size it up and
Joewe easily put ropes up in the tree. You know, it's not a, you know, that's a skill we have. We got a
CustomerYeah.
Joeand then we tie the ropes on it, we know how to tie it around there, and if the tree's leaning
CustomerRight.
Joeback or anything, we have little hand-operated winches that are specially designed for ropes,
Joethey're not wires, they're none of that stuff,
Customerright.
Joeand then we can just inch them over, inch them
Joeover, inch them over, and then they follow just exactly where we want to. And we have insurance,
Joeso that if something does happen, but we don't take risk, I mean we don't have to,
CustomerYeah, that's right. Yes,
Customeryes.
JoeSo, if you want an estimate, you know, you could probably send me some pictures.
JoeI might get throw something out on the phone, but if you were pricing this out, what would you say?
JoeWould you say this is over $500 or under $1,000? Okay. Well,
CustomerI have no idea.
Joehere's what really governs the price.
JoeA lot of times, if you give us an opportunity to schedule it, like around the crew and stuff like that, that makes the price better.
JoeIf it's like an emergency, you know, that, you know,
Joewe have to come out right now or whatever. Sometimes that makes it more expensive,
Customerthat it's not, it's not emergency.
Joebut we're real flexible on the pricing.
CustomerI just don't think that you often do it without coming to look at it and give me a prize.
JoeWell, okay, that's, that's very likely to be true.
JoeWhat I'm going to, I'm just going to tell you that generally we have a minimum of $1,000
Joeunless we can, listen, let me just tell you right,
CustomerAll right, here we go.
Joebut if we can schedule it in with some
Customerbuy much less.
JoeNow, sometimes we know some other guys that need work and we'll pass the lead
Joeonto them.
CustomerI just have to know the price before you cut them down.
JoeOh, well, we definitely give you a price. We don't,
Joewe don't scare people like that. That would be wrong. No, we look at the trees.
CustomerYeah,
Customeryeah,
JoeWe tell you what the price is. I'm just telling you how many trees is it?
JoeJust two trees. I think you should send me some pictures. I,
Customertrue.
CustomerThey're about, they're about, I don't know,
Customerless than four foot apart from each other.
JoeI just think you should send me some pictures and then I'm going to have Mike
Joeput his eyes on it. He's, we get
Customerokay,
JoeMasing five star reviews.
JoeEverybody loves Mike.
JoeHe knows what he's doing.
JoeHe's a veteran of tree work and you'll be treated right, Gary.
Customerokay.
CustomerNo, I'm just gonna walk up to the front porch
JoeOkay, and I'll look at him right here.
Customerand then I'll take you to the pictures.
JoeAnd then I'm probably gonna have Mike
Joeor his scheduler call you, okay?
CustomerOkay, I need a prize first.
JoeThat way they can, but I'm gonna send,
CustomerI need a prize first.
Joewhat's that?
JoeNobody's gonna come do anything without giving you a price.
JoeI promise.
JoeThat's just not the way to treat people, don't you agree?
CustomerOkay.
CustomerThere might be three trades in the picture.
CustomerIt's gonna be the two on the rise.
JoeOkay, I'll talk to you about it before before anybody comes out. Okay, just send
Joethem over here to this. I'm going to text you a number and you'll be able to text and you'll see
CustomerOkay, Dan.
Joeit. Okay.
CustomerOkay.
JoeAll right. Thank you, Gary.
CustomerThank you, my life.