It’s an unfortunate sign of spring in metro Atlanta, pine straw scammers making their way through neighborhoods.
“So, he knocked on the door and said he was doing the neighbor’s house across the street with pine straw, and he had extra bails that he could put down on my house if I wanted,” said a Morningside homeowner who asked us to hide his identity because of what happened next.
The agreed-upon price was $150 to put out pine straw, but when he checked in on progress before they even got to the backyard, the price had skyrocketed…