.- you are correct about legal protections for victims of domestic abuse.

I had a situation where I did over and above my job, I kept everything clean making sure if I ever needed any time for a personal situation being my child was sick and had to pick her up I always made up the time over and above the time I used to get her to care to get back to work, I clocked in later than so arrived I clocked in earlier than so left everyday, I always gave more time, I took less lunch time than everybody else, I appeared blameless in every situation, I had a witness everytime if I had to deal with any money, then like a previous post in here, one day my boss grew fangs when I made a mistake that was completely fixable and abused me verbally put of the blue and so resigned and worked out my final weeks with my head up coz I knew and so did all the other staff that I was blameless and I learnt a valuable lesson to keep your relationship professional no matter how everyone else functions in the workplace, the fact in this situation was my boss was jealous that I got results out of the staff, which is silly coz that was my job, to manage them effectively that they would produce!...

It was that one last bit of unwarranted verbal abuse that committed me into quitting the job.  

Either have a contract, or accept that there is a chance, however small, that you might be tricked/cheated/abused out of your money.If you plan to file a small claims suit, I would do it as soon as possible. 

If your credit and income was high enough I wouldn't care about a non-violant non-sexual felony. 

Some of the older HVAC units were actually built relatively well as long as they were not abused they will last a while.  

The money was spent to support an operation that was riddled with waste, fraud, and abuse.

I'm gonna be on a bus, so no vehicle.

I know the insurance industry stopped the sink hole claims around 2011 (at least in Florida) due to an abuse of the repair privilege.

At the same time I'm sure there are many landlords down there that are abusing this.