I have a neighbor that does just this. He does tree trimming/removal and a very reasonable price. Ive priced him against others and had him do some of my trees. When he has a slow day, he will loadhis stump grinder and just drive around looking for business and then go talk to people.

It's possible, but it just isn't likely, or at least not likely enough to be worth it for me.

Businesses knocking on your door like this are either new and trying to establish a clientele, or not very good and therefore don't receive repeat business and need to constantly find new clients.

Local, established professional businesses that do good work will likely have contracts with local businesses and generate more from word of mouth and likely don't need to go door to door coming up with lies "we were just working on your neighbor's yard over there..." and "discounts" to manipulate you.

If you wanna roll the dice and find out if it's a new guy that does quality work or a shady business that does bad work, more power to you, it's your property. I'll skip the jerking around and hire an established professional business with good reviews that I went and sought out. Just keeps things simple.

In my experience and other people I know that have had a similar experience, that has never been the case. This latest experience showed me that at the very least, the door to door guy was trying to rip me off at more than twice the price.

Hiring a professional local means they are always in the area. Just about anyone else that is competent and honest, isn't going door to door.

I had a flier in my mailbox saying I could save big on a tree job because they were working in my area. They wanted $4500 for two trees. I passed. Looked up another company that was well reviewed and they said $3k.

Local is better. They have a reputation you can check up on.