More info is that I have my escrow check coming (7K) and a nice fat bonus from work coming at around 14K!

Mainly that’s spiteful on my part- because I’ve been burned by people like that in the past.

It would cover his clothes and possibly your building if it burned down due to his negligence.

Maybe they are a burned out landlord and just dont want to deal with the tenants any more.  

@Freeman Schultz a 60-watt bulb burning four hours a day will cost...$0.70.

ESS told us to “just do our best,” and that was a collective big fat NO. 

I am not indicating this will significantly increase your odds of collecting, but at least there was an effort and the incident will be reflected on their credit report making it less likely that another LL will get burned by this tenant. 

Fortunately, they allowed us to borrow a computer and we managed to find a replacement rental a couple miles away.have you ever been burned by a vacation rental?

Nothing major, but boy was I burned out by the end.Now we have cockroaches in another rental thanks to an abandoned property next door.

But one telltale clue is that blower motors tend to let off a nasty mechanical rubber-burning stink when they fail -- that's usually a dead giveaway.