Triad Building and Development

A year ago this client asked me to bid a fence for him which I did immediately, he never asked me to I stall the fence, then at the same time he took me to two other properties and asked me to quote gut re-habs on both of the homes, after spending a month or more going over every detail on the jobs, he then informed me that he had a contractor that he planned on using on the one house and to continue with pricing for the second. I submitted the quote for the second house and he informed me after spending all of this time working out every other detail, that he would need me to "front" him $50,000.00 (by way of labor and materials) because his financial backers would not committ to the project unless he brought it to a certain point. I explained to him,in several choice words, that this "detail" was much more important than most everything else we discussed and had he disclosed this during our first meeting, it would,have saved both of us numerous hours. 7 months later he called me to ask me to complete the same job, I asked if he had the money to fund the project and he said that he did, I asked him about his contractor that he had hired and he explained to me that " we don't have a contract and I can get rid of him at any time, I just need to cut about $40,000.00 from the budget". These are not usually words a contractor like to hear nor is this the kind of person I like to deal with. I am always honest and my pricing is more than fair and on time just as my work. I'm not sure why, since he didn't even hire me, would he take the time to write anything but that may say something about the kind of person I could have wound up dealing with. Please look at all my other reviews and If you're interested I've got a long list of clients that would be happy to contradict his review. Thanks Marc