Big Easy Landscaping

Do yourself a favor and pay attention to all the negative reviews. Also search any company related with Derek Ancalade and you will find more negative reviews. We contracted with him in January and it is now July and he has given every excuse under the sun not to start. Every time it is someone else fault that he cannot start. He will also blame the customer as well. He also is not a licensed landscaper. I am not even sure he has a legitimate business. Be aware that there are several others in the same boat. Do not waste your time and money. Please also spread the word so that no one else supports this scam artist.

6/20/19 DO NO USE BIG EASY LANDSCAPING-HE IS SCAM ARTIST AND WILL TAKE YOUR MONEY! So the saga continues with Big Easy Landscaping. We still do not have our money back from them even though he promised he would. This despite our filing a complaint with the Attorney General’s office and receiving assistance from them as a mediator. Derek was contacted by the AG's office on 6/4/19 in an effort to try and settle this matter out of court. Derek promised the AG he would refund us our money in exchange for removing our Social media posts. He claimed he would have the $4500 in 15 days delivered to the AG in Baton Rouge. We agreed. He counter asking us to remove our posts first. We declined that and he still agreed to have the money to the AG on 6/19/19. Well, he did not deliver. We did not get our money yesterday nor did he call the AG with a reason as to why. I am sure he will call in a day our two and say either his dog died again, he or a family member were in the hospital. See, this is his normal MO. We will be filing a complaint today with the Secretary of State regarding his licenses. We have also been contacted by the LA Agriculture Department to investigate him AGAIN as he does not have a horticultural license in the state of LA. Since April, I have been contacted and am talking to 7 people who are having the same issue. He low balls the estimate, takes a small deposit and never comes through with his end of the contract. Do yourself a favor, us another contractor even if the cost is higher. This is a man that will lie to the LA Attorney General's Office-Do ya really want to do business with him?