answer:Fairly new, is how new? A few weeks, a few months? I wouldn’t necessarily see his sending a Xmas card or writing “Thanks for your business” as fishing for a tip, more just good PR and as a newer client good business rapport. If he has done several jobs/projects/repairs for you and you plan of keeping him in your stable of handy work horse guys I’d at least give him a bottle of ****, maybe a gift cert. for dinner for 2 somewhere moderately priced, or a cash “tip” if you feel like it. I’d say gifting or tipping a valued helper at this time of year would be a nice gesture but keeping your gift/tip in a monetary range you are comfortable with. You don’t have to gift or tip him $50 or $100, $25 would be decent enough. A “tip” can be anything, not only cash.