Thursday, July 15, 2010

Joys of Homeownership!




Here's a quick rant on being a homeowner. Our air conditioner has been a bit sketchy lately but it seemed that every time we were about to call an AC man it would jump to life and work fine. Well last week we went to NYC and returned this past Monday. When we got back to our home in Austin, Texas we walked into our house and it was over 100 degrees indoors. The thermostat told us that.

Holy balls, it was hot. It was about 9 p.m. so we call the AC people and tell them what's wrong. Adam asks if it will be able to be fixed tonight or if we will have to wait until the morning because if we have to wait then we will stay in a hotel. The AC guy says someone will definitely be out that night and estimated arrival time is no more than 2 hours.

Fast forward throughout the night, they did not come within 2 hours. When 11:30 p.m. hits Adam drops them a call and they said to wait a bit longer but reassured that someone will be there shortly. At 2 a.m. Adam calls again and gets no reply... He then calls every hour until about 7 a.m. Poor guy, he was up all night! Adam couldn't sleep with the heat in the house and we were all miserable. The kitties looked like they were melting on the floor and were panting all night. We were cooling them down by running ice cubes on their fur.

Anyway, at 7 a.m. the AC company called us back and said they will get someone out between 2 and 6 p.m. At that point Adam flipped his lid because we were told NOT to get a hotel room by the company because they assured us someone would be out to repair it the night before. So with some heavy words and being transferred to the manager of the company, they finally got someone to our house within 30 minutes of that call.

The guy came, did some stuff and left. The AC started working a bit but after about 2 hours the temp of the house only managed to drop to about 85 degrees. Yes, better than 100 degrees, but still very hot and unbearable in this Texas heat. So we called back and they came out again.... long story short, they had to return about 5 times throughout the day before it was finally fixed.
It is now 3 days and a thousand bucks later and our air conditioning seems to be working well without any problems. I now understand why people (especially parents) insist on saving money for emergencies, like health emergencies and home repair. I cannot imagine not being able to fix it because you don't have the money and we are very blessed that it wasn't a big issue.

I do miss the days of renting an apartment or leasing a house where if there was an issue we can just call the landlord or rental association maintenance office and it was their problem and their expense. But we're the owners now, so it's our responsibility.

Oh, the joys of homeownership... And adulthood. :)

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