Needless Mark up
I thought I was shopping at Neiman Marcus aka Needless Markup. Whoever reads this stuff. anyway, Bev gave me a really high quote on my Patio / Pool. It wasn't that she's not capable, but she was over the top price wise. I got a similar proposal from a Garden Center in Metairie that charged 1/3rd less for the exact same thing. I shopped around and compared apples to apples and saved money hiring another female designer whom I won't mention her name, except, her family has been in the Garden Center business for over 40 plus years. Bevs approach of " the hands on approach, with all the phases in a landscape project, from start to finish" is Bev really worth the extra cost of paying her to stand around and dictate what a skilled workman already should know with out her presence.
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