The owner was contracted to do work on my house and required a significant payment upfront, $10,000 (total job cost was under $20k). After receiving the money the owner became difficult to deal with and refused to start work demanding to be paid even more money and would not return my money when he was asked to. I won a breach-of-contract lawsuit against the owner who now owes me $19,000 in damages but he refuses to pay any of the court judgement. Due to the owner being in bankruptcy, where he has been for about 8 years we found out, it is unlikely he will be held accountable for his unethical conduct. My lawyers advised me that further legal action against the owner would be stayed by the bankruptcy court. Avoid a major headache and hire someone else. Search " Chris Nagus News 4 Investigates Darnell " Be careful as Darnell operates using multiple LLCs and 'doing business as' names.