Denver, CO
Customers claim Denver contractor took their money then walked off the job
DENVER — A bunch of a dozen Denver metro residents beforehand unknown to one another have developed a relationship lately — regretfully so.
This 12 months, they shaped a gaggle chat the place they every shared their experiences with MountainSky Landscaping, LLC out of Boulder. Every declare they paid the corporate 1000’s of {dollars} to put in swimming pools and varied yard options, solely to be left with an incomplete job.
In response to the Secretary of State web site, the corporate was shaped by Peter Churchill, however prospects imagine it has been operated by his two sons, Shiloh and Luca Churchill, as they’ve been the first contact all through the whole building course of.
A YouTube video posted a couple of months in the past reveals Shiloh saying the corporate will rake in $7 million inside the subsequent 12 months. Meantime, prospects like Golden resident Josh Thompson say they’re out 1000’s of {dollars}.
“What now we have is a large gap the place we’re presupposed to have a spa and pool,” Thompson informed Denver7 Friday.
That gap could also be the costliest one in Golden.
“Our total venture is meant to be $280,000. In whole, now we have given them $210,000 in whole to this point,” Thompson mentioned.
He employed the corporate in March. Thompson says the promised end date for a pool, spa and pergola was presupposed to be June.
“There’s possibly 10 to fifteen% of the work finished,” Thompson mentioned.
He says the corporate got here up with a brand new excuse for the delay every week.
“We have by no means been given an actual straight reply as to how any of this has occurred,” Thompson mentioned.
A number of different prospects within the Denver metro shared the identical frustrations — incomplete building, delayed work and shoddy jobs.
“It is sickening, we have misplaced sleep over it,” Aurora resident Emily Saul mentioned. “We have now given them roughly $90,000.”
She says the job was presupposed to be completed almost 5 months in the past.
“Like I mentioned, 40% full possibly, they usually’re finished. They’ve walked away,” Saul mentioned.
Different prospects like Littleton residents Scott and Donna Rauen had been in a position to get a little bit additional within the building course of. Their pool was put in, and water is in it, however a better look reveals some obtrusive points, akin to a waterfall that was put in too removed from the pool. The water flows onto the concrete surrounding the pool as an alternative of into the pool.
This week, MountianSky Landscaping despatched a textual content message to a number of prospects stating, partially, that they are not in a position to end jobs as a result of certainly one of their staff allegedly embezzled as much as half 1,000,000 {dollars}, which froze their financial institution accounts, prompting them to file for chapter.
Contact Denver7 reached out to the corporate a number of occasions for remark Friday, however didn’t obtain one. Berken Cloyes, PC, the legislation workplace that focuses on chapter and represents the corporate, declined to offer a remark Friday.
Meantime, MountainSky Landscaping, LLC is concerned in at the least two lawsuits, in line with court docket data obtained by Contact Denver7. One in every of them was filed Wednesday by Christopher Frank, a Denver buyer who contracted the corporate to put in a pool at his property. He’s accusing the corporate of civil theft, fraud and breach of contract.
One other lawsuit was filed in opposition to the corporate in 2020 by SCP Distributors, LLC and Superior Pool Merchandise, LLC. They’re searching for greater than $200,000 accuse MountainSky of breach of contract, fraud by examine and unjust enrichment.
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The family of one of the two victims killed in last weekend’s series of stabbings in the 16th Street Mall area of downtown Denver says he struggled with mental health and was living on the street. Still, she never could have imagined something like this would happen to him.
It’s images from Nicholas Burkett’s childhood that remind Carol Cortez and Wayne Burkett of a time where all their son had to worry about was being a kid.
“Always a hyper fun kid. He always was busy doing something or trying to be. He always loved the spotlight,” said Carol. “He’s not an angel, but, you know, he was my baby.”
Nicholas was a young boy who loved art, music and hanging with his sister, but his struggles with mental illness took over as he got older. Eventually, he landed in jail, became addicted to drugs and wound up on the streets of downtown Denver.
“He wasn’t a threat to anyone by any means, and he was frail from the drug abuse,” said Wayne.
“I was 17 when I had him. So, we struggled as young parents getting through it,” said Carol. “I was hoping he would be looking to get clean soon and he would get that chance.”
The Arvada family say this chance was taken away from Nicholas when the 34 year old was stabbed and killed by a suspect police have identified as 24-year-old Elijah Caudill. It was one of three stabbings police say Caudill was responsible for on Saturday and Sunday.
“It’s really shocking. The best way I can describe it is it feels like a weird fever dream, and you don’t know how to process,” said Maxine Burkett, Nicholas’ younger sister. “You kind of just go through the motions, I guess.”
“I mean, I assumed he had OD,’d” said Carol. “I was kind of preparing myself for that for a while.”
Though, nothing could have prepared them for their son becoming the victim of a homicide.
“What this has deprived us of is the ability to make anything up to him in the future or to ever apologize for anything we might have done,” said Wayne. “We couldn’t. We can’t right the wrongs now he’s gone.”
Nicholas’ family say they feel for the other victims hurt and killed during this violent spree. The other person who was killed was 71-year-old Celinda Levno.
“This shouldn’t even happen. This should never happen,” said Carol.
They say there needs to be changes in the community that better address mental health and homelessness while preventing crimes like this from happening to anyone.
“See some kind of a better way to manage the homeless people instead of just providing them with shooting galleries and places to put their tents,” said Wayne. “They’re not throw away people. Their lives matter, and we care about them.”
The Burketts are crowdfunding to help financially support their son’s funeral, and they are also advocating for a safer Denver and justice for all the families impacted from the weekend.
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The Denver Broncos’ run in the NFL Playoffs did not go as planned, but the season was still a success for rookie quarterback Bo Nix, who lived up to expectations as a first-round pick.
While the Broncos season ended on the wrong end of a blowout loss, the future is bright at Mile High.
One of the people who was front and center throughout Nix’s rookie campaign was his wife Izzy Nix, who cheered him on throughout the year and was his biggest support system.
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Nix finished his rookie campaign with 3,775 yards, 29 touchdowns, and 12 interceptions while adding 430 yards and four scores on the ground.
Izzy and Bo met at Auburn University in the summer of 2020 when he was the team’s star quarterback and she was a cheerleader. The two have been inseparable since and were eventually married in the summer of 2022.
Now that the season is over, Bo and Izzy will get to enjoy some couples getaways to make up for the time they spent apart during the successful year.
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