Agree with other posters that if you have lost trust in this contractor, even if cost more, you need to cut your losses and find a new one.As to what to do with the existing contact; depends on a number of different factors having to do with the size of the contractor, how big the contract is and emotionally just how upset you are about things.If this is a small contractor then there are likely few if any assets in his company and it is generally very easy to shutdown one LLC and start another one with a similar name so suing them is just a money pit; its not fair but very common.

I was about to walk but the sellers ended up cutting me a 2k check at closing for dropping the issue and proceeding with the deal.

Honestly if your not willing to spend a few hundred bucks on accounting software maybe you are not cut out to be in business.That said, with 3 units you can absolutely get by with an excel spreadsheet.

@Kim Hopkins I completely agree with @Priyanshu AdathakkarIf anyone else wasn't cutting it in their work - it's simple... they'd get fired.

It looked like the lawyer was cutting and pasting info into the document and doing an extremely poor job of it.

I have a place in Vancouver, so I don't want my net worth to cut in half by one single event, being the crash of the Vancouver housing market.  

My sister-in-law turned on the oven and melted my mandolin, my father-in-law melted my cutting board.

Rather than cut out an activity, people more often downsize.

Follow all the steps and don’t cut any corners;  if your asset is a thousand miles away you have to do your homework, and it had better be managed someone you trust a fair bit.

It's the best loan, no PMI, no downpayment, and in Texas if you are disabled they will even cut your property taxes.