captains plumbing

We were idiots to trust someone off of Craigslist. We have never owned a house and inherited a home in Middletown, OH from my father in law when he passed away last year. We found this same persons ad on Craigslist, called him and he came out to give an estimate. Him being 1 1/2 hours late to meet us, we should have known better. Everyone in his crew, including himself, smoked inside the house (without asking or letting us know), left cigarette butts in the sinks and floors on the house, left a window upstairs open, and since he took our key and never responded as to when we could get it back, we had to force our way into the home to close the window and change the lock all together. We bought supplies he requested us to get from Lowe's and when we 'fired' him from the job, he didn't return everything we gave him. It has been over town months of back and forth and him beating around the bush to try and get him to finish the job. We are out $1,650.00 and the work isn't complete. He states to be 'hurt', yet if you punch in his phone number on Craigstlist, you will see many different ads from him looking for work. DO NOT TRUST THIS PERSON. Run the other way. He has been verbally abusive through text each time I try to get answers. We have been called idiots, a**holes, and told that we b*tch and complain too much. We have gone weeks at a time without hearing from him. He is extremely unprofessional, does lousy and incomplete work, does not return calls or texts, will stand you up when he tells you he will be there at a certain day/ time and won't call to let you know. He only works an hour here and there and will not finish the job. Zero communication. I wish I would have given him ZERO of our money. No matter how good the deal may seem, RUN the other way. DO NOT give him your money. You will regret it.