Started learning and reading all I could about 6 months ago when I was living in Indiana and came on vacation to Bradenton for Christmas and my wife and I knew we had to move here but we had just purchased our first home.

My renters called and said they looked down the stairs and saw their Christmas tree floating past!

The kids loved walking up and down the streets this Christmas and looking at the Dickens characters.

@Chris Herrera, I used to live in Carol Stream.

One of my properties I have amazing tenants; granted I do many nice things for them in return but they are amazing nonetheless.As an example they gave us a hand made gift basket for Christmas with candles, body lotions, wine, etc that they made.

Typically we wire lights in parallel so that a malfunction on one light doesn't effect the rest of the lights on the circuit (ie. old Christmas lights that go out when one bulb is unscrewed).

Then another 6 weeks to get a contract (it was around Christmas time). 

Will be heading back there right after Christmas.

Other than "A Christmas Story", I haven't seen a fuse box since I was a kid.

Pay it, and be grateful my tenant had heat on a cold holiday, after having the power out for two days over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (we had a really bad winter storm and a huge area was without power for several days), or call the company and try to negotiate the cost down a bit, because the tech was not there for two hours (their shop is 10 minutes away), while trying to maintain a good working relationship with them?