Our contractor that we hired to build our home agreed to fix our pond dam that was leaking. He verbally told us he could do it, and that he would include it in the dirt work for the house. He never told us how much it would cost. He stated that it was more work than he initially thought it would be, but that he could get the job done. We asked him several times how much that was going to cost prior to him starting the work. He never gave us an amount. During the build of our home he did not stay on top of the budget. We asked several times about the budget and expressed that we would do whatever we needed (take off safe room, build all light fixture, hardware, gas installation, and did all the clean up during the build) to make sure we did not go over budget. We asked several times. He never would sit down with us to look at our budget. He only said invoices are still coming in. He added things to our build that caused us to go over budget. He never once ran it by us, so being he was contracted for a set price we thought he would come to us if we was going over budget. Especially since we had expressed our concerns from the very first day meeting him. After our house appraised for the second time almost 40K over the first appraisal is when he started telling us we are way over. We asked for a figure. We said are we looking at 20K over or what. He told us no, it wouldn't be that much. He then sends us a list with all the invoices that has had paid for our house build and it was over 30K. I told him I wanted to go through the list to figure out exactly why we went over budget. I then asked what we do now that we don't agree on the final price for the house build. He then goes off on me about he knows what he has in the build and he isn't in the business to loss money. I simply told him I wanted answers to why he went over budget that much, when I clearly saw it wasn't on material cost going up due to Covid. He ever changed his builders supervision fee from 10K to 20K due to his banker telling him he can't make a living charging that amount. He never once told us he was doing that. He basically bullied us into settling with him on a price and then he tells us the pond dam work was 6K. Of course, we went back and forth about it and ended it by saying after he completes all work to our home that was not finished we would pay him for the pond dam work. That was the only way we thought we could make it to closing. He has not completed all items we requested to be completed. He has attempted via text to get his 6K. Now he says he is going to put a construction lien against our property. I need to know what options do I have to keep from having to pay him the 6K. I believe we have paid him his 6K when we paid him 10K more for his supervision of the build....