So your contract was up and he hired a different company to take over? Sorry to say, that's life in the business world.

The house next door to mine was on the market for over a year. The real estate agent who was trying to sell the house kept insisting to the owner that the house needed to be steeply discounted to sell in the current market. They kept the price much higher than the real estate agent suggested. Finally they were convinced to accept an offer, about $50K below their reduced asking price. The buyer unfortunately got cold feet and backed out of the sale. This occurred shortly before the seller's contract with the real estate agent expired. Rather than renewing their contract with the real estate agent who had almost sold the house, the owner signed with a new agent, listed the house at $10K above the offer from the buyer who backed out, and it sold within weeks for the amount the prior buyer had offered. Because that was the price the market would bear. But none of that got the original real estate agent a commission.