Contractor Never Finished The Job, Will Not Refund Deposit, And Wants His Storage Pod Back.

It’s probably a rented pod. The whole story is long and probably more than anyone cares to hear, but the license number he gave me wasn’t really his contractor license at all, and I’ve found out he’s gone through multiple fake company names and left a trail of victims like me.

I’ve also discovered that the other “owner” has a record and actually escaped from the local jail a while back. Apparently that has all been resolved and he did his time, because the police aren’t interested. They “can’t find him in the system” even though he’s right there in the publicly available jail docket online. But like I said, the whole story is very long.

He had stored my furniture in a pod on my driveway. Now he wants it back but he owes me $9,000 back for work that will never be done.

Can I make him sue me and work it out in court? Or should I keep it until I sue him and see if I win?

This guy’s LLC was dissolved before I hired him but his signature is on a contract, and the LLC and all his property is in his wife’s name.