When retired Army veteran Luis Angel Gomez hired Dreamscape Pools for his Hillsborough County, Florida home in 2023, he thought his backyard project would be straight-forward — as his niece’s was. But, unlike his niece’s experience, it turned into what Gomez calls his “biggest nightmare ever.” (1) After he paid almost the full contract price of $111,535, contractor David Robbins stopped showing up, leaving Gomez with an unfinished pool and mounting financial strain. Other people across Florida report sim ...