I wound up walking away because the area of town was a little (read: a lot) rougher than I initially thought. 

Then i met my now wife, our plan was to sell after the wedding, buy a town house and then start a family.. ffw, wife got pregnant two months after we married, took me a year and a half to sell my condo and wound up making very little on it.. in then last two years, the place we wanted to move to now has the same town houses that we once were able to afford, just out of reach.. single family homes?

Find the pain and heal the wounds!

How long can they keep putting band aids on already gaping wounds?

I’ll chalk it up to the fact that you must just not understand.Dump the guy, lick your wounds and hire a licensed and insured HVAC Contractor.

You can't bill them for that month, but you cn certainly bill them for August.This is, to some extent, a self inflicted wound.

You have a self-inflicted wound!

I believe that this is one of the few places I can come and be highly likely to find people of this caliber.As for the times, I am glad we are having this discussion over the internetbecause high spirited people are more effective and successful when there is a bit of time lag between thought and deed (as the wind up of this thread has proven).One of the things that I remember the most from a family history I read concerning my surname in the SOuth of the US in the 1700's and 1800's.In my family line, for more than one generation of land holders and tenants alike, practically every adult male died by gunshot wound in a duel or by gunshot wound inflicted by the family member of the loser in a duel.Now a days we return to civility with a "guys".

This is largely a self-inflicted wound as you let this tenant get more than an entire month behind on rent.

I had a rental property that wound up in foreclosure before I could remove the tenant and I was able to do this on my own.