Elkour Lawn Service

Do NOT use this business!! We have used Elkour for our landscaping including mulch, etc. we have spent over $14,000. In the most recent contract, it was stated that weed removal was included, which never occurred. The owner Zak was contacted and he said he didn't have enough manpower in order to provide the service and would be rendering a refund of $390. This never occurred and it has been 6 weeks. He informed us that he has "bigger fish to fry" than to drive over with a refund. We asked if he would simply place a check in the mail and he refused. Now he will not respond to any requests for this refund. This company has been terrible to work with! They are extremely unreliable, they come at late hours in the evening and even placed mulch down that had horse manure in it. This served as a fertilizer and we were stuck with tons of weeds as a result. It would be my suggestion to anyone looking for a landscaping company, that they look elsewhere! This was the most recent text from Zak after reading my review "No problem trust me I've seen a lot worse and now you guys f**cked yourself on your refund. Make sure you put that on a review to that. The business owner said that we f**cked ourselves. Make sure you use that word f**k OK"

I never leave reviews and after just getting off the phone with him where he talked to me so unprofessionally I have to speak up. DO NOT USE, THIS SERVICE IS A SCAM FOR YOUR MONEY. he will make you pay up front then only do less than half of what you pay for. You call him and there is always an excuse and fake promises. His contract states you can only get your money back if you say you’re unsatisfied which I did for 20 weeks of the summer since he never came. He is taking advantage of people that trust their home to him. He just talked about his PRIVATE PARTS SEXUALLY with me on the phone when I asked for my money back and is completely disrespectful. I feel violated, sexually harassed, taken advantage of and scammed. My neighbors warned me that he had a bad rep but I took the chance as I like to give people a chance- that is my fault. So much for small town good people. Don’t hire this guy please save yourself the drama and disrespect. I feel worried now he is going to do something like damage my property out of revenge so looking into further action as I don’t feel safe with this guy near my house.

In May I paid $740 cash (upfront) for 13 weekly lawn cutting/weed services. Elkour only cut our lawn a few times during the first 6 weeks. After missing the first cut, I explained that we have a strict HOA, so our lawn must be cut every week and if he couldn’t keep up, we’d have to go with someone else. He assured me there would be no issue moving forward. Unfortunately, it continued to be an issue, and everything came to a head in mid-June when they failed to cut our lawn once again. The day after our scheduled cut, I reached out to Elkour to notify that he breached our contract, and we had no choice but to hire a new lawn service. I also requested that the remaining retainer fee ($590) be refunded. He became combative, insisted our lawn had been cut (the day prior) and he personally logged it in his book. I informed him that we work from home and did not see him, or his crew cut our grass and that our surveillance corroborated that fact. I also documented our overgrown yard with a real-time photo and sent it to him. His response was that he needed to discuss this with his CPA, which in my opinion was odd. I texted him a few weeks later to follow up on my refund and his response was incoherent and confrontational. Instead of accepting responsibility and agreeing to the refund, he referred us to his civil attorney & CPA. When I requested their contact information, he responded with “good luck”.

I can’t believe how unprofessional this business is. After doing many searches to see if anyone else felt unsatisfied with their service, I learned a lot about the owner himself. After the couple articles I found including his brush with the law, leaves me not surprised with the many upset customers, one of which is my grandmother. She had paid for a service of mowing her lawn throughout the summer and he has only mowed 5 times in the four months he was paid for 19 cuts. I will be mowing her lawn tomorrow, and every time I’ve visited her, her grass was very long. I would never bring someone’s legal charges to your attention, but with his performance of running a business, I feel the charges show his character. Here is the article I found through the Citizen Newspaper: https://thecitizenonline.com/twp-man-jailed-following-assault/ https://thecitizenonline.com/brandon-man-faces-20-years-felony-on-cocaine-charge/ https://www.oaklandcountybusts.com/profile-page.php?id=1913051 If you want to see how many people have been duped and lost money from this company, please look at BBB and Angie’s list. https://www.bbb.org/us/mi/ortonville/profile/lawn-maintenance/elkour-lawn-service-0332-90028227 Please read the reviews after the first two, the bad reviews definitely outweigh the good. https://www.yellowpages.com/nationwide/mip/elkour-lawn-service-468641101 https://www.angi.com/companylist/us/mi/ortonville/elkour-lawn-service-reviews-6423034.htm Unless you personally know Zak, please read up on his reviews before doing business with him. Only people that know him personally are taken care of. Do not do business with this man! My sister also wrote a review and received an aggressive message from Zak himself. Zak, you don’t want to message me or say anything to my grandmother that you were called out for taking her money for a service she didn’t receive. If you want to run a profitable business with good reviews, than you need to actually run a professional business! Stop scamming vulnerable people! I don’t think I’ve ever read so many bad reviews about a business.