1st Choice Lawn Care

from 1st Choice Lawn Care was hired to do landscaping for *** and *** "***" *** in March 2019. *** placed a bid with my husband and I to do job for 16,000. *** collected 3 draws of funds towards this 16,000. With last draw he requested an extra 1,000 dollars so he could purchase lights for landscaping. 1,000 dollars of money was provided upfront for ***, and he never returned to finish the job. During job, he busted water lines and cut electricity lines that we had to fix at our cost. *** never offered to fix or pay for repairs. *** was shown where lines and wires were prior to beginning job. *** and his crew left our yard in disarray and unfinished with holes and plants dying. During his time at our job, *** used ***'s equipment with ***'s gas and had *** run errands and *** paid for purchases when he ran errands, and we were never refunded. I called and texted *** for 2 weeks asking when he would be coming to finish the job only to be ignored. I finally was able to contact *** from an unknown number. He stated he would send a refund check and hung up on me. I never received refund check. I posted a bad review on his website right after all of this occurred; however, this person only shuts down website and creates a new one when someone has trouble with him. I am just now addressing this due to the fact I had a bad automobile accident during all this happening in which I had to haver 3 surgeries. I have been incapacitated for almost a year and am just now able to get this addressed. I would love to recuperate the 1,000 dollars he stole from us at the very least.