Legal Question in Consumer Law in New Jersey

Re: Lawn Care

It depends. Some lawn services send end of season notices which say that they will resume service at the start of the new season unless they hear from you otherwise. This has nothing to do with pre-paying or not pre-paying. If this was the arrangement, and you did not specifically notify them that you no longer wanted their services, then this could be an enforceable contract. If this was not the arrangement, then it would probably not be enforceable. You could either not pay and see if you are sued in small claims court, or pay just to be done with it. You could easily justify paying since you did receive the service albeit unwanted, just to put it to rest. Or you can offer them a compromise (1/2 or whatever) as full and final. If you think there is the possibility that you may want to use them again if you find that you don't like doing the lawn yourself, you may want to end things on a good note. I hope this helps.

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