Money has no stretch to it!! Darnit!

Well, in short last summer we decided to update our furnace and have someone install it. Everything seemed fine at the time and it was a great deal. Well, fast forward to one of the coldest days of the winter. I come home for my lunch break and it's colder inside than out. I look down at my cat Teddy who is an ice cube. I wrap him up in a blanket and keep him warm and call my husband. "Honey, please call someone. The heat won't come on and it's freezing in here." So the sears man comes and tells us he fixed it temporarily but that whoever installed it could've caused the house to burn to the ground. Great, now what? Then, they said they could fix all of the problems but we have asbestos in our ductwork. So I call to have that removed and they want over 900.00 to remove it. That's not counting the 1,400.00 that sears wants to get us back to square one and safe. At this point I'm to boiling and just can't figure out how to get out of what to do. I asked my coworker Tina B. if she knew anyone, and long story short it was the best thing I could've done. She got me a guy named Bret who was awesome, and in the end was only about 1,100.oo altogether and didn't have to get the asbestos removed. He did that too. So they saved me about 1,000 easy. If you need someone reasonable and good email bret skilldago@aol.com. I highly recommend him. Now, we still don't have central air or my security glass block windows, but I guess we are getting there. Whew, that dollar just doesn't stretch far enough no matter what you do.