Do not pay this man money upfront

be very careful, takes your money does half a job, or a poor job and says will be coming back and never does, been going on for over a year, I'm now at civil court with him and won my case, now he needs to pay me back and again full of excuses , I wish I had his full name before i gave go ahead on the job , *****s from one client to pay the other and fund his life style with constant excuses why job is not done.