Did your friend personalize the emails or just copy-paste the name?

Does that $6k figure count the extra time spent shopping and cooking or just the money saved on food?

@mia_singh24 roofing cement like spackle? That is wild. I've seen some bad DIY attempts but that one takes the cake. The water pouring into the living room part made me wince, I can just picture that guy standing there with a bucket while his ceiling is dripping. And then he has the nerve to get mad at you for tripling the price after he turned a small fix into a total disaster. The cheapness tax strikes again.

burns.ruby says fancy tools catch more problems but my expensive scanner gave me a phantom code once and the old pressure gauge I keep in my trunk proved it was a bad fuel pump. Sometimes the Simple stuff works when the computers just get in the way.

Nah but I had a cheap torque wrench that was just lying to me the whole time. False confidence is its own kind of explosion.