If you do not finish paying in accordance with the contract he can take a construction lien on your property. Your recourse of course is to file suit here for Breach of Contract since he has never properly completed the job and your payments were reasonably ontime and if you were out of town when he completed and the completion was outside of the time when he was supposed to have finished then you would have a claim that the late fees were as unreasonable as had he finished on time you would have been in town to pay him ontime. Additionally, just because the funds were being held by the bank because of the amount, that does not mean you did not pay him. You paid him when you gave him the check and as long as the check was valid, it is not your problem for the check being held to clear his account. Unfortunately, this means you would likely end up in court suing him for breach of contract to get him to finish or to recover whatever costs you incur because he did not finish and offset that from what he is claiming you still owe.

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