Cantrells Construction

We hired Shane Cantrell (Cantrell Construction) to build a barndominium on our property in Alachua County. We paid him $5000 to start our project. Over the course of four weeks we met with Shane twice: Once on the property for 30 minutes and a lunch meeting that lasted an hour an a half. I tried to contact Shane several times during this period but he was unresponsive. Some of his excuses were he was at his kid's soccer game (he used this twice) - wanted to be there for his kids. He said he receives hundreds of texts and calls a day and can't possibly answer them all. On one occasion he said his secretary should have returned the email but her grandmother died. Due to his lack of responsiveness we decided to look for another builder and asked for our deposit back. Contract stated deposit refundable if no overhead work had begun. He refused. He told my husband he would send us an invoice for all the time he spent on our project. Three weeks later we have received nothing from him; no drawings, no renderings, no invoice for accounting for his time. I would not recommend Cantrell Construction.