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Freddy heurta who is the owner and operator of Heurta concrete was contacted by myself through Facebook marketplace. I had him do a quote for a price to do my concrete pad for a metal building. He quoted the price at $3650. The price sounded good so I had him over to physically look at the site and I told him that I was going to properly permit the job so I needed the concrete to be able to pass inspections. Freddie told me that he had 10 years experience and it was him and his father who came to look at the site. I told him I didn’t want any surprises and that’s why I had him over so that we were both on the same page. Very soon after our conversation him and his father came over and said that the site looked good and there would be no surprises. They came over soon after and began to excavate the site to level everything off. while they were over to do the work, they made a deal across the street to do some concrete work for $4000. Days after they leveled the site I found out that in order to have this permitted they would have to slightly increase the size of the pad to incorporate a drip edge. They came by and slightly increased the size of the forms to facilitate the drip, and this would increase the project price by $300. At this point, I had already paid him $2000 cash as an upfront payment to get the job going. Couple days later I was made aware by the builder of the metal building that there was also to be footers doug and poured. I told this to Freddie and he said that would be an extra $2000 more. He said it was a lot of work and he would need the $2000 upfront before he would commence the job. He came over to do the work and I gave him $2000. They worked for approximately 1.5 hours at my place while they prepared my neighbors area for concrete. Once they prepared it, the concrete truck arrived and they poured my neighbors concrete. I will add that they did a horrible job that needs to be jackhammered and removed at a huge expense. As soon as they were Done, finishing my neighbors concrete they stopped working on mine and left. Excuse after excuse and they were not showing up to finish digging my footers, but when they finally did show up after I threatened legal action, they dug them, but their work failed the inspection. After much back-and-forth and lies from Freddie they came back and did some of the work for the footers to pass and left me with approximately four hours of work which included digging and cutting tree roots so that I could get the footers ready for inspection. They were inspected and finally passed. 4 1/2 months went by from when they commenced my work and still no concrete and I had paid out $4000. He never denied that I paid him $4000. Promise that he was gonna do the other work but never showed up. The final price that he quoted me was $6000. I had two concrete contractors come over to give me quotes to finish the job and both quotes were exactly $6000. Now the concrete pad has costed me $10,000. I took Freddie to small claims court in Asheboro, North Carolina, and after having him served by the sheriff, he did not show up for court, and I Was the winner of this court case and awarded $4000. Although I won the case it will be near impossible to collect this money from him. Beware of this snake.