Todd Cochran, owner of Cochran Landscape Management INC. Should be shut down! It is surprising that he and his company are not under investigation!
If you hire him to provide regular maintenance on your property or properties he will charge a fairly high price (that you agree to) in order to turn around and hire sub-contractors to do the work for a percentage of the actual pay! The work may be acceptable but eventually he will fail to pay the sub-contractors for work performed and you will end up being threatened with a lien on your property if you don't pay the sub-contractors for the work they rightfully did! So basically you will end up paying double for work that was performed and end up finding another company to perform the services you need!
I actually sympathize with the sub-contractors that do work for him. This a small amount of the story:
Once a new crew showed up on my property (sub-contractors) I didn't think anything about it due to the fact they were wearing Cochran uniforms and driving a truck with a Cochran logo on the side. The work they were doing was good (acceptable now that I know they were getting such a low percentage of what I was paying) I enjoyed speaking with the gentlemen on a weekly basis and got to know them fairly well. They (sub-contractors) worked on my property for about 6-7 months all of which I paid Cochran for. Suddenly no one came to my property for about 2 week. I called Mr. Cochran countless time with no explanation of why no one was servicing my property. Eventually a new crew showed up and I was back to being serviced regularly.
A couple of months went by then the old crew leader (sub-contractor) shows up at my door step, asking if I had paid for the services provided during certain months. Of course I said yes. He went on to explain how he actually owned his own company and that Cochran had posted on Craigslist looking for sub-contractors to provide services to over 100 residential accounts he had, one of which is mine, and how Todd never paid him for three months of services he provided in fact there were 3 other sub-contractors that were never paid for work they had done. I tried to contact Todd about this but of course he has never responded, needless to say but I hired someone else.
Basically Todd Cochran ripped off 4 companies for a total of $50,000.00 during a 7 month period. I'm sure there are other out there just like me that may end up with liens on there property due to his SHADY BUSINESS TACTICS! Ripping off honest people for his own profit.
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