J Vitale Landscape & Maintenance - Santee, California

Alexis V.

I live in a complex that uses J Vitale as the landscape service. My husband was outside putting our baby in the car and took a picture of a tree overhanging our unit. A J Vitale landscaper approached my husband, accused him of taking his (the landscaper's) photo, and demanded to see my husband's photos on his phone. (We have our security camera video showing all of this.) My husband showed him the phone (with no picture of the landscaper) and the landscaper accused my husband of having deleted the photo. The landscaper refused to identify himself (so that we could report him to his company) and instead demanded our names. The landscaper told us if we wanted to know who he was to call his company. I called J Vitale immediately and spoke to David. David said the landscaper should have identified himself and was not behaving correctly; I gave David a description of the landscaper, our complex name, and the license plates of the two trucks in the lot. With this information David identified the landscaper as Romero, the landscaping supervisor of our complex. David said he would follow up on Romero's behavior.

In a subsequent phone call, David changed his stance and said that we were harassing Romero, the landscaper. He did not give details as to what we had done to harass him. J Vitale then also sent us an email that said (1) this is an HR matter and they are not legally allowed to tell us what their opinion was concerning the issue and (2) in order to keep this from happening again, we should avoid approaching J Vitale landscapers (which we did not do) or taking photos, "however innocent". This is completely ridiculous: first of all, why would we be taking a picture of the landscaper to begin with, because we definitely were not. We were not even aware he was there until he approached us. Second, for a company to say they will not control their employees and instead you should not take pictures in public areas is incredibly inappropriate. We still don't know why Romero thought we were taking his picture or why was so aggressive about it.

If you have Romero working on your property, you need to be aware that he is aggressive and will accuse you of things you did not do. And if you contact them about employee misbehavior, they will change their stance like David did to protect themselves.

J Vitale is a company that seems to allow it's employees to bully the people who pay their bills. Hire just about anyone else.

Theresa M.

They do the maintenance for Oaks North. They killed the frogs that chirped at night with their poison. Then, they chop down every flower they see. What the heck is wrong with flowering shrubs? The hummingbirds loved them and Vitale took the flowers away. Everything here looks like ScissorHands. Just a stupid bunch of rounded, flowerless forms. Tonight I walked onto my balcony to watch the sunset and saw how they raped my bushes. I feel violated! What creeps! The landscaping has no soul or beauty! They make money with useless trimming. Let the flowers prevail!

Dan B.

Best run landscape company in the county!

Beles B.

Unprofessional. Sloppy work.

David L.

Eli S.

Miguel G.