by Frank Fistner, ArtisTree President
Landscape-maintenance RPQs are too often met with fuzzy contract language written by landscape companies that should know better. If you’re a property manager, CAM or HOA board member, look for vague words like these:
- “Custom-blended” fertilizer (details, please?)
- “Standard-blend”
- “Similar to”
- “If deemed necessary” (by whose definition?)
- “From time to time”
- “Dictated by general conditions”
- “Occasionally inspected”
- “More or less”
- “Or an equivalent of…”
Fuzzy words and phrases could cost you, so insist on contract language that’s tight as a bud.