On the hottest day of the year my tenant calls up frantic that the AC for the house is out! I called a half dozen HVAC companies and only three could get someone there that day. Based on having been mentioned positively in a Yelp Review of a competitor, I decided to try Agave and it was a great move.
Even though they had been working 12 hours that day, they were prompt, they showed up as and when agreed, and quickly fixed the AC for about 60% of what the others had estimated: e.g., a can of "stop leak" for a minor freon leak was $125 instead of $200 the other guys quoted; they didn't charge a minimum $100 in diagnostic service fees or $125 call out charge as the others wanted, they charged $75 for one hour of labor for TWO guys. They found two problems and fixed them both: replaced a bad startup capacitor, added freon, and put in the stop leak. I figured when they were done the bill would be $400-500; it was under $250. Last guy put in freon only and it cost me more than that!
And they charged me for freon by the pound like all the others have over the years, but they ACTUALLY WEIGHED THE CYLINDER before and after so I wasn't charged based on some estimate -- or made up amount. I have never seen a service guy do that before! So I put "honesty" high on the list of their attributes. (After the fact I checked with BBB and they have an A rating, with 0 complaints; it would be an A+ but they apparently haven't been in BBB long enough for that.)
They were smart guys, knew their stuff and made my day go a lot better than I or my tenant had expected. Go Agave, these are the AC guys you have always hoped would show up at your house. read more