Andaloro, Steve Construction

Review: I provided to [redacted] an 11-page set of custom house drawings for which I paid an architect several thousand dollars, as [redacted] had agreed to give me a bid to build the house. After more than three months, he did not provide the bid, although twice during the early part of this time period he told me he was working on it and would have it to me within the week. After many attempts to contact him, both by phone and email, he has failed to get in touch with me. Over the past few weeks, I have spoken on the phone with his wife twice and left messages with her (and also on his cell phone voice mail and by email) that I would like to make arrangements with him to get the drawings back, as they were provided to him temporarily for bidding purposes only and he has held up our project for months now. I told both [redacted] and his wife in those messages that I would be happy to pick up the drawings at a time and place of [redacted]'s convenience. My last conversation with [redacted]'s wife [redacted] was on Monday, April 14, 2014, at 4PM, asking that [redacted] get in touch with me to make arrangements to return the drawings to me. No one has contacted me since. As I have paid the architect in full for the drawings of this custom house design, the drawings are my property. These drawings have complete specifications for construction of this house and would allow [redacted] to build this house for someone else, or himself, if he so desired, without paying the architectural design fees that I already have paid. In effect, he has stolen my property and is refusing to return it.Desired Settlement: This is a very simple matter. I just want [redacted] to return my 11-page set of drawings. I would be happy to pick them up at a pre-arranged time and place, or [redacted] may drop them off at my home if he prefers.