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TruGreen is the largest lawn and landscape company in the world. The corporate office of the company is based in Memphis, Tennessee. TruGreen was started in 1973 in East Lansing, Michigan. In 1990, as a result of acquisition TruGreen joined the ServiceMaster family of brands. Today, TruGreen services more than 3.4 million residential and commercial customers across the U.S. with lawn care, tree and shrub care, and landscaping services. TruGreen devotes substantial resources to continually evaluate new products and equipment and to develop better methods for taking care of grass, trees, and shrubs. All of the company’s lawn specialists are tenured full-time employees who must complete a rigorous training program before they can be certified by TruGreen. Among the services, provided by TruGreen are lawn care program, Natural Nutrient Program, Tree and Shrub Care, Landscape Care Program, Root Zone Fertilization, Additional Services, and Nuisance Pest Control. Please try to contact TruGreen Customer Service directly prior to posting any complaints on this site.

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Rainyday...
TruGreen- INSIDE INFORMATION

To start off with, I was an employee of TruGreen for roughly 5 years. I have extensive knowledge of how the company does business. Now, before any of you decided to hire Tru...

#291745
Jan 25, 2012
66

Chris sc...
TruGreen - CONSUMER REPORTS >>ALERT

I am a cancelled TruGreen customer. Never to go back. Even though TG keeps calling me & sending me mailers trying desperately to lure me back. A quick summary of my problems with ...

#290798
Jan 21, 2012
82

FloppyRi...
TruGreen - Tru-Green Don't sign up you will never get rid of them!

So I signed up for 4 treatments last March. Then cancelled in June. I receive calls now every 3-4 weeks asking me to restart my service which is another pain in my ***. Now 1 ...

#290329
Jan 19, 2012
75

Anonymous
TruGreen DON'T CARE!!!!!!

It is very frustrating dealing with TruGreen. It seems they don't care about your lawn they only care about collecting the money. I called and complained about my lawn on Dec...

#289698
Jan 17, 2012
74

Anonymous
Unethical TruGreen

I have been a trugreen customer for over 8 years. They are supposed to provide 9-10 lawn care services in a year. Continually each year they find a way to make sure they do 12 se...

#289379
Jan 16, 2012
78

Anonymous
TruGreen - Unauthorized application

After being laid off in mid October I cancelled my service with Trugreen after 11 years of service. I was out running some errands in mid November came home to find a flag in the l...

#287938
Jan 10, 2012
150

Cooper76
TruGreen - Sent me to collections over an unauthorized service

I was in the process of trying to sell my house so I hired TRUGREEN of Wheatridge, Colorado to help make my lawn look as green as possible. I hired them for one treatment. They c...

#286497
Jan 05, 2012
115

Anonymous
TruGreen,SYRACUSE,UNFAIR CHARGES

I HAVE HAD SERVICE WITH TRUGREEN FOR MANY YEARS. IN JUNE 2011,THEY PROVIDED A SERVICETHAT I HAVE CONSISTENTLY DECLINED AND THEN BILLED ME FOR IT. WHEN I REFUSED TO PAY,THEY...

#286089
Jan 03, 2012
137

Yz8
TruGreen Worst Lawn Care Service

I prepaid TruGreen 2 years in the row, first year with their service, my lawn suffered from uncontrolled weeds and bare spots all over, they beg me to give them another chance so I...

#283857
Dec 24, 2011
176

Laidofan...
TruGreen IS a Scam

Trugreen-- they work ya to death,make you treat customers poorly,(spray and go) push services they honestly dont need ( LAWNS GENERALLY DONT NEED LIME AND POTASH!!) then screw up f...

#282890
Dec 20, 2011
218

Pissed o...
TruGreen - LAID OFF EMPLOYEE

OH what happened when they get done with you running oh bout 10,000 dollars a week they lay you off cause theirs nothing to do . YA THINK !!!!! no *** theirs nothing to do we have ...

#282653
Dec 19, 2011
236

Chris sc...
TruGreen, More like TruGreeD or FauxGreen

I was sick & tired of TruGreed's (FauxGreen's) poor service from both their lawn-care and tree & shrub treatments. So I cancelled them for good! I had TruGreed's full...

#282198
Dec 17, 2011
190

Diane672
TruGreen is a ripoff

Trugreen has charged me to do the front, side and rear of my home. They came today before I got to the door. He thought I was gone because my car was in the garage. He did the fron...

#279348
Dec 05, 2011
267

Mylawndied
TruGreen killed my lawn too!

This is the third year I've had TruGreen. First two -- no problems -- happy. This year, we had a drought all through the summer. At beginning of summer TruGreen treated my lawn -...

#278504
Dec 01, 2011
197

Anonymous
TruGreen DID WHAT THEY SAID

Florida is one of the toughest places to grow grass. You will fail if you try to take fertilizer and ***/ insect control and do it on your own. I met a good Account Manager, from ...

#273188
Nov 06, 2011
283

Anonymous
TruGreen ruined lawn, killed 5 trees, bushes and shrubs

May 21, 2010 Trugreen applied "something" to my yard which killed huge patches of grass and 2 trees lost all their leaves by the end of June. I was told this would be temporary an...

#272565
Nov 03, 2011
206

Anonymous
TruGreen - BEWARE-Unethical Lawn Care Company

I hired TruGreen Chemlawn about 12 years ago and got my neighbor to sign up with them also. My wife and I are typically not home since we both work but every so often my wife woul...

#267344
Oct 11, 2011
643

Anonymous
TruGreen

I received and paid for full service with Tru-Green during the 2010 season. The service was expensive and too frequent, with mediocre results. I chose not to contact them about t...

#263718
Sep 23, 2011
815

FAS Ohio
TruGreen - Tru Green Does Understand "Your Fired"

I have verbally cancelled Tru Green's service to my addresses not once, but 3 times. Last night I received yet another telephone solicitation for additional serv...

#262294
Sep 16, 2011
400

Burke1978
TruGreen - Tru green insisting on doing treatments

On August 29th, 2011, Tru Green had talked to my mother and had asked if she had wanted any lawn services for the next day. My mother had stated that she did not want any services ...

#260364
Sep 07, 2011
504

Anonymous
TruGreen didn't complete the service.

TruGreen serviceman spent more time writing the report than he did providing the service. I went out while he was writing and found areas he did not even cover with the spray. Th...

#259040
Aug 31, 2011
428

Ladyghar...
TruGreen - Destroyed my yard replace St Augustine/Bahalia grass

Tru Green Admit to using wrong chemicals on grass. Vinny agreed to replace sod in back yard. It took approximately 11 months for them to put Bahalia sod down. I have ...

#259010
Aug 31, 2011
449

Anonymous
TruGreen - TrueGreen treats you like a dog and they are a ripoff.

I worked for them for 4 miserable months here in North East PA. I had so many pissed off customers. They made treat lawns in the rain, only to have to re-treat them again and get n...

#258700
Aug 30, 2011
527

Elias52
TruGreen - True Green messed my yard and my boyfriends yard looks like they burnt all my grass

They messed my yard and his so bad I had the best yard on the street until True Green came out . If you love your yard Please don't go with that company you will end up with bu...

#258358
Aug 28, 2011
362

Anonymous
TruGreen - Hideously deceptive

Tru Green is deceptive and hideously unorganized. They charge, promise to show up, don't show up, claim they tried to call.....and on and on. I would absolutely never ever ever...

#257966
Aug 26, 2011
275

Anonymous
TruGreen applied a treatment that I did not want

I have used Trugreen for many years. This year they added an expensive treatment that I have always declined from phone sales. I did not payfor the treatment and canc...

#256445
Aug 19, 2011
320

Anonymous
TruGreen - Lies, Lies, Lies!

I've just read some of the complaints and most of them could have been written for my problem! Called Tru-Green about lots of weeds(after and application was made 2 weeks earli...

#256250
Aug 18, 2011
396

Anonymous
TruGreen - True green is a rip off!~ and they dont care!

We used True Green a few times and then we did the treatment for moles. We thought it was a money back type deal if it did not get rid of your moles. Oh no please read the fine pri...

#252883
Aug 02, 2011
462

Rbitz
TruGreen West Chicago

Carl the manager does not care about his residential clients. After 2 weeks of saying my lawn was dead, the manager, Carl, finally came out. He told me "to get a sprinkler system...

#252644
Aug 01, 2011
488

Anonymous
TruGreen Park Ridge, IL failed to treat my

I asked Trugreen service to treat my Flowering Crabapple for blight and after three applications, their note stated that my Crabapple has blight (duh) and it needs a special applic...

#251436
Jul 26, 2011
389
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