This review is long overdue. I noticed a trend in the comments - and it seems to be a lot of tenents needing a fix, and the folks at Appliance World not coming through for one reason or another. I'm one of these tenants.
First, I apologize in advance cause this is gonna be full of typos and mispellings while I fly through this review since it's about a month overdue, but I gotta go to work.
I'm a super busy RN. I don't have time. If you know an RN in acute care you know that we barely have time at work, let alone at home; I sleep, I shower, and I work. Sometimes I have enough time to eat.
The gas company came out to my building, and for whatever reason(s) had to shut the gas off. When they turned it back on they had to go unit to unit and inspect all the gas appliances in the building. My stove was locked n' tagged as dangerous, and my oven had a precaution due to a leaking coupling. Cool! Right? Who doesn't like not being able to cook at home? Note: I said I don't have enough time to eat; didn't say I didn't have food ready on the chance that I do.
SO, this happened the week before Thanksgiving. I'm pulling anywhere from 13-16hr days, and sometimes five days a week. I didn't take the time to tell my property management company about the matter for a few days. By then, Thanksgiving was less than a week away. The guys at Appliance World simply didn't have a timeslot to fit me in. Sean, on the phone the same day I submitted my issue asked: "Well what about right now?" I think it was near 6 o'clock in the afternoon, and I was already at work.
"Do you guys work weekends?" I asked. They don't. This is the single and only reason I wouldn't give 5 stars, but there isn't an option for 4.5.
That left Thanksgiving as my only available day, and of course that wasn't possible. That left the following Monday as the earliest appointment. Apparently this was further out than Sean typically schedules cause he said "call me on the Sunday before to remind me. OK?"
I was working Sunday, and totally forgot to call him. But I got a text message from him Sunday afternoon asking me if Monday still worked for me.
COOL. Monday rolls around, I think I had a three or four hour time window, and the guy shows up in the first ten minutes of it. He introduces himself, comes in, inspects my stove, and my oven. Says "OK, i'm done."
I paused, and asked "wait. What?" He said he needed to inspect, and submit his report to verify the problem.
I had a small TIA, then said something like "I e-mailed, sent text messages, with pictures, to Sean, and to the management company with the gas company's tags, and the numbers on the device while they were using it on my appliances. All the information is there. Why wasn't..." I stopped myself. This wasn't the right person to have this conversation with.
I called Sean and started up again. Imagine my frustration here: I haven't been able to cook at home for two weeks. Which means I was eating raw foods (deli meats n' produce) stuff that doesn't last for more than a few days, which means I had to grocery shop a few times a week, get take-out, and eat hospital food. These things cut into my sleep, and happiness (especially the hospital food). Don't get in the way of an RN's sleep when they work as much as I do, folks. Especially if it's our week to be on-call til 7am.
Sean was patient on the phone. Heard me out. He started apologizing, and explaining what was happening, and that he would have a report from his guy by the end of the day. Then he paused and asked me in a really earnest tone: "Did you think we were coming out to replace your stove *today*?"
"YES! Why the hell wouldn't I?" I said.
Me, thinking it's a simple issue, failed to understand that my pictures weren't enough to skip due process: tenent writes a maintenance request to the management company, management company sends out a rep who has some kind of investigative authority to validate the problem, management company sends the request to the owner so they can fix it, owner gives thumbs up/down, and yeah... You get it.
I apologized to Sean after calling my management company, and left a voice message for the lady who handles maintenance issues. E-mailed her too; always document these things.
In about 10 minutes of finishing that e-mail I got a call from Sean. He said he had another call in my area in about two hours, and asked me if i could I be home for that much longer.
Sean showed up in one hour, on crutches, and a busted foot in a brace. Harry was right behind him with an honest to goodness brand new stove in a box at my front door on the second floor.
Sean and Harry were in n' out of my apartment in less than an hour. New stove installed, oven hose n' coupling replaced, and both working like one would expect every day since.
Right. That's it. That's the story. Cheers to the lady at my management company for somehow expediting the approval, and to Sean n' Harry at Appliance World. Thanks guys. read more