<prompt> Human: My mom is stuck and she needs my help.My mom hired a contractor to renovate a kitchen. She gave around 13,000 for hand made shelves, new flooring, taking down a wall leaving an arch, installation of ceiling lights, reroute the ventilation of the range hood. She will give the rest of the money when the job is done. total: 20,000.The contractor left because he could not keep on schedule but demanded more money, so my mom fired him. We did not give him the rest of the money. And the work he has done is complete shit. The electrician the contractor hired used electrical tape to hold the wires together. Another electrician had to come in and fix all the wiring so its up to code and reinstall all of the pot lights. This cost us 4500 Wood flooring is uneven and has gaps and is covering a floor vent. We might hire someone else to redo the flooring or just do it myself Cabinets are not painted, have no doors and installed in the house already. Yeah, he was going to paint them in the house. We took them down, put them in the garage and we are taking them to be painted soon. All the work has been done in the garage and not in a shop so our garage is full of sawdust The ventilation to the range hood has been covered with drywall I thinkThat leaves us with 2500 left, not enough to finish. The only thing he did well was taking down the wall engineer approved.What should I do? Do we sue the contractor? The contractor cannot be contacted anymore and we cannot find him. We kept pictures of the bad job performed by the electrician. And we kept the pot lights with the electrical tape still on them. Do we live without a kitchen? I have no idea how to renovate a kitchen so I can try DIY project but my mom has certain standards that go well beyond my range of knowledge. That and I dont have the tools.  <response>: Bones for now. Legal remedy will take a long time.Basically you got screwed... Sorry. 