Business ProfileforH & M Landscaping

July 26 we signed a contract to put a covered patio addition and use composite on the floor. The price came to about $80,000 when we signed the contract they wanted a deposit of $14,000. I don’t usually do that but I knew H&M landscaping and they have been in the area as long as we have and we have some family connection to his brothers. After much going back-and-forth with our HOA as we live in a condo they finally denied us the addition and we have a letter from Carlisle management saying that they denied us. When we signed the contract. I made sure to have in the contract, a statement that said if we did not get approval from the HOA, he would give us our deposit back. So when we sent the letter over in the contract to H&M the letter being the one we got from the HOA denying us. They sent us a letter saying that they usually take a 45% cancellation fee and they’re being real nice because they’re only going to keep her 14,000 and we have till April 1 to sign back up again if they kept the 14,000 would go to charge the job and if we don’t tell them by April 1 then we lose the money. But the contract clearly states that if the Hoa denied us then, we get our money back he’s trying to say that it was our decision not to go forward which is not true. I contacted him early this week I believe Tuesday which was October 3 and told him that we need our deposit back and I did talk to him. He was trying to put words in my mouth that we were the ones that didn’t wanna go forward which would mean that I don’t get my deposit back and I told him repeatedly that the HOA didn’t approve us after much going back-and-forth and then we have a letter. And we have a contract that says will get our money back if the HOA doesn’t approve us, it’s pretty simple