My motto is don't hire friends. I grew up watching my parents making that mistake and kicking themselves. There are a few friends that I will do favors for, and them do favors for me. I don't like actually hiring friends. It always seems to get sticky. My husband made the mistake of hiring his buddy to do our landscaping. He was a greens keeper for years and just started his own business. For the past couple of months, I've noticed that my lawn looks terrible (granted it's mowed), my flower beds are over grown with weeds, the front of our house has weeds everywhere, the list goes on. My husband doesn't want to talk to his buddy about it because "he's going through hard times". He's even lending his buddy his truck to keep his business going while his truck is in the shop, again. The buddy says he's not going to charge us this month ($50). Woop dee doo. Am I a bitch for feeling this way? Have you had issues like this?

So back to my original question: Do you hire friends? Why or why not?