Business ProfileforPete's Absolute Asphalt Sealing

We contracted Peter on May 3, 2021 to pave and seal a 230 SF portion of our driveway. He assured me it was a one-day job, yet never even started it. The previous complaint filed against him appears to describe a similar scenario: Peter taking the deposit money, never starting the job, and, upon the customer asking for the deposit back, either refusing or deducting several hundred for "administrative fees," "time," etc. My deposit on 5/3/21 was $1,500.00, and Peter proposed to return $840 but keep $660. None of the work outlined in the contract and for which the deposit was placed has been even started. No administrative, accounting, time, etc. fees are part of the contract I have. When confronted, Peter blamed me for not letting him do the work. I explained that, as we approach now the end of the second season when nothing has been done, I do not wish or trust him to do the work. He then blamed me that I wouldn't let him do the work when he tried to, referring to his 8/17/22 text when he wanted to schedule for the day when my first day of classes started. I politely asked to schedule for a different day that week so I could be there - which now he describes as me not letting him do the work. He also claims that he tried it several times. Note that, as a teacher, I have flexible summers, when I am home almost all the time, yet for two summers the one-day job never happened. Starting 7/13/22, my communication with Peter has been by text only, and I have eight texts since then asking him to schedule the job. All prior communication was by phone calls. After I refused Peter's idea (by text) to come do the job NEXT summer, his last several texts became full of gaslighting and triggered my anxiety; therefore, my husband started reasoning with Peter, to no avail. At this point, we'd like our deposit to be refunded in full. Based on the other complaint, it looks like we are not the first clients whom Peter has treated this way - this needs to stop.