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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