My question involves the return of a deposit on a service contract in the State of: Florida
I am a decorative concrete contractor in Florida. I have a client who signed a contract to have a stamped concrete porch installed. He gave me a deposit for $830 on a credit card , the balence was $1800. Three weeks later he informed me on the day the job was to start that he did not want us to do the work. The reason given was that I was late in returning a call by 3 hours. He wants his depsit back. I told him we would come out to perform the work, but he just got very angry. I told him we had a contract to perform the work and would start that day. I told him we have cost in the project in the product for his job and the loss of work for the 2 days that could have been given to a different client. Then I told him I would send him Half of his deposit back. He said yes, 3 days later I get a dispute form from the credit card. So I sent the information to the credit card copany to explame the issue. This has taken 2 weeks, in which I did not want to send the 50% back incases he gets his money back from the crsdit card. The card company just sent a letter in my favor. Two days later I get a letter from his lawyer asking for the full deposit and his legal fee's. I want to send the 50% he agreed on the phone with me. Can he demand a full refund because he wants to breach the contract?

