Daves Decks and Fencing

We hired Dave to build our deck. He was likable and reasonable. Even though we had to wait about 3 weeks before he could get to it, we went ahead and signed his contract and paid for the permit. Three days before the job was to start he called and told me the job he was working on added more projects and he wasn't going to be able to do our deck because he was going to make more money with the new additions. He suggested I go with one of the other bids. I told him that this would just put us on the next contractor's waiting list. I asked him to honor our contract and do our deck, go on vacation, and then do the additional work that was just added on the other deck. He kept telling me how he was "stuck in the middle" when it was really his decision. Since we knew that he was not going to do our deck, we asked for our money back and he returned it.