You know, come to think of it, the original reason I stopped payment on check was because I made it out to his business name and he wanted it to him personally. So I stopped payment on the check to his business and then never wrote him a new check to his personal name after I saw the job he did...
so the fact that HE breached the contract by subbing out my job to a day laborer, did not use the paint I asked for among several other items as listed above.......this is all my fault now, right? Quite frankly, the job he left me with was worth far less than the $4,300 he would have gotten had...
We hired a painter to paint house and guest house for $7,000 and gave him $1,000 down. When he reported the job complete, we wrote a check for $3,300 with balance due upon inspection. Once we saw how poor of a paint job he did (I got lots of pictures to prove it) we stopped payment on check and...