Outrageous (IMO) snow removal charge

[April Griffith]

I use a property management company, and they used two vendors for snow removal at my house (short one-car driveway, small amount of sidewalk in Omaha, NE). Between Jan 23 and Mar 2, I'm being charged almost $1700 for snow removal. We did have multiple days of snow, but the problem is, when I looked at the invoices sent by these two vendors, they both supposedly went out to the property and removed snow on the same day on five different occasions--and the amount of snow they removed adds up to about twice the amount of snow fall for that day and the days preceding the snow removal. In one case, they both removed over 9" of snow, even though the snow fall was only 7.5".

I've pointed this out to my property manager, and I'm waiting for them to respond, but I have a feeling they will insist on me paying the full amount.

How would you proceed in this situation?

[Don Spafford]

@April Griffith Oh, then yes, that is unfortunate. If it is vacant and snowing that much, chances are the rehab may not have been taking place anyway at that moment and therefore didn't need to be plowed that often and especially not by two companies the same day. To me that sounds like their error. They probably sent the request to two companies in case one couldn't make it but since they both went without knowing about the other, I would guess the second would have just cleared what was there anyway since they got the request. Probably could have hired a neighborhood kid to use a snow blower for a lot less. Sorry. Makes me wonder if the same thing happened to other customers of theirs.