Jonathan Tagar the owner of this company is a thief and is running a scam business. I doubt he even has his HVAC qualifications/liscence let alone a business license. If this man comes to your house, he will most likely pretend he isn't the owner and is just an employee. My wife and her mother made the mistake of booking him through some sort of broker company called En Duct. When he got out here, he met with my wife and mother-in-law and conned them into believing there was a mold problem with my AC unit. What was initially around $200 Duct Cleaning Service turned into an $800 scam! He told my wife that he would treat my AC unit for mold and to install a UV light that would prevent it from happening again. He claimed he did all this work and upon leaving refused to give my wife an invoice after she paid him in cash... Huge mistake! I wish my wife would have informed me about any of this as this would have been prevented right from the start. Since then we have had the work looked over by another contractor and was confirmed that it was a scam and nothing was conducted by Southeastern Air Care. Not only that, but I have law enforcement involved now to which they have confirmed Jonathan Tager's actions. Hopefully it won't be long until he is held accountable. Whatever you do, do not book this company as this man is a con artist that preys on weak people. read more

Southeast Air Care - Owner of this company. - Heating & Air Conditioning/HVAC Near Me

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Everything James F said in his review and more! What started out as a $109 job to clean each unit (we have 2) ended up being $800. I should have never fell for it. Ryan talks fast and makes promises and with little result. Well. With NO results. He 'installed' two UV lights to kill mold and promised to send an electrician out to hardwire the lights (instead of using a drop cord out of the window). Nothing in 3 weeks. This company is a joke. I attached picture of invoice. Insane pricing. The company and their work is a joke. Stay away and find another company to help you. read more

Southeast Air Care - Here's the "invoice" he left. It can't possibly be anymore generic. - Heating & Air Conditioning/HVAC Near Me

These guys are scammers! Read all the reviews and that is exactly what they do. Ryan came to our house and pulled the "You Have Mold" thing in our air ducts. He said he could solve the problem by installing a UV light and that he would put us on a maintenance plan to come back ea year for $25.00 to replace the bulb. He wanted $800.00 cash. He acted like he cleaned the ducts and fogged for mold but he did nothing but instal a fake UV light. Also he did not properly put the unit back together...they are total scammers. They change their numbers and move on to the next county. read more

SEEMS LIKE A SCAM! Technician was nice and on time and professional. Talked fast! I don't really understand how spraying a treatment in my system is cleaning it and how it cost $200. My system is older, on the phone they said it was no problem. Once onsite, I was told that it would not be able to be cleaned but they could spray it to deal with some of the issues until I replace all the ductwork and provided a monster quote. The tech sprayed something for 10 minutes. This is not cleaning in my opinion. I didn't realize it would be still $200 and didn't have time to discuss as I had to get to the hospital with a family member. I talked to the manager the following day. He said nothing. I definitely would not do it again or recommend to anyone. read more

IJames L has him pegged! I would rate this as a negative. I wish I had known this when Jonathan Tagar (and a friend) that goes by numerous names came to clean my air ducts. It was supposed to be a $199 job that turned into $725. I should have paid attention to all the signs that it was a scam! No paperwork at all! Red Flag #1 Nothing for me to sign. Red Flag #2 When I was writing the check he all of a sudden said oh we just got bought out by Southeast Air Care can you change the name on the check. Big Red Flag #3. I asked for his business card sorry I am out. Red Flag #4. And last but not least -oh can I email you the receipt! Red Flag #5! read more

This company is a traveling SCAM. Please read: After several attempts this company now known as "SE Air Quality Experts" aka Jonathan Tager came to our home for duct cleaning service. Said we have mold in our HVAC unit and he could not clean our ducts (did not even look in our vents, air intake or in our ducts, even when asked to) because of the mold. Sounded scary! No one likes to hear the word "mold"! He "Sanitized/Decontaminated" the "mold" and then sold and installed us UVlights all for a ridiculous amount of money. If you look up scams about duct cleaning services.. this guy is the definition. Do your research! He came in as SE air quality experts, Jonathan Tager from North Carolina to where we live in South Louisiana. 1. We found him through FB Marketplace where he led on with a fake account and claimed to be local with a "special price". Which obviously he is not local, at all. 2. He did not come with a large duct cleaning van and did not show up to the first appointment and came very late to the second. 3. He told us we have mold. Which is not true. You have to have mold tested to be considered mold. Here in LA you have to be licensed to detect mold and licensed to remediate mold and have a license to spray any chemicals. Also by law here companies are not allowed to detect the mold and remediate. It has to be two separate companies. Which he does NOT have ANY of those licenses and seriously broke the law. 3. "SE air quality experts" is not registered as a business, doing business as (DBA) or have any contractors license in the state of NC or LA and therefore not insured. I know for sure. What if something terrible would have happened? Hard to think about. 4. He liked being paid in cash. 5. Though this guy seemed really nice and had a good talk about him..I felt really weird the whole time he was here and just wanted him to leave... which is why I looked up this "business" after he left. He has a history of bad reviews and constant business name changes. This makes me very sad for all the people who he scammed and still scamming like me. We let this happen to us and I hope this review will help you not get scammed too. If you want your ducts cleaned: Research, Make sure they have an HVAC contractors license which is very easy to look up registered ones on your states SOS website and make sure you call at least 3 for quotes and they come out and keep their promised appointment. Learned my lesson, for sure. read more

This business is a SCAM!!! "Ryan" came in to clean my duct work and vents and immediately decided we had a mold problem. After trying to sell me the mold solution problem he made the promise to come back and clean ducts for free because I was reluctant. I had him put these promises in writing and of course when the day arrived for him to hold up his end of the bargain he never showed up. I called him and he told me his best friend died in a car wreck, then the next excuse was that he works -14 hours a day and he has to spend time with his daughter. How any of this is my problem Idk but he makes promises and then doesn't back them up. Finally I got the "Owner" Jonathan involved as "Ryan" also broke the entrance to my attic going into it, which he also promised to fix. The owner said that Ryan would be out the next day. Ryan also promised me he would bring a longer tool to clean the dryer vent and the morning he was supposed to show up I text him and asked him to please bring the right tool needless to say he did not and when I asked him about he jumped in a childish fit and yelled he was going to refund my money so we could both just " walk away" I explained I didn't want the money what I wanted was what was promised. Ryan is a very big guy he looks like a football player so I think that he believes he can intimidate people. Moving on he's got an attitude like he's doing you a favor after promising to do something. While on one of the many conversations with him on the phone his immediate solution was to throw in another free service however he hadnt completed the original service so I think that was more important. He then told me he doesn't like his character being called out like that. Well.... If you keep your word people won't call your character out. Then he finally shows up with another contractor to fix the attic he broke in the first place but doesn't bother checking the mold treatment which he promised he'd do from the beginning. Now we're trying to figure out which vent is clogged and he tells me that he can't clean my vents because he just paid someone to fix my attic.Again how is this my problem? I didn't break the attic entrance. So now he wants me to pay him to do the job I originally hired him for because he's already got too much money in this job already, but let me warn the consumer again HE broke the attic not me. Suddenly he decides that the vents can't be cleaned because they're deteriorating. But he can fix it for an adittional $500 each vent then I can pay him to clean the attic. When I said no He gets all upset turns bright red and starts telling me about how he's missing out on time with his family because of this. Well don't tell people you're going to do something and then not do it. I can't count all the promises I was made but I do have paperwork where he wrote these promises down and then just didn't show up for them. Not a phone call, not a text just a good old fashioned F you. He got my money and couldn't be bothered . The last time he was here I got him and the "owner " on the line on speaker and the owner said he knew nothing about all this then Ryan abruptly interrupts and asks me what I want and I told him for him to keep his word. Then I said just 20 mins ago when I told you promised me that you'd bring a better tool you offered to refund my money instead of making good on your word. He blows up violently and screams he's done with this and says he's going to get my money and storms out my home like a child. Making me and my wife feel very unsafe. Of course he never came back ( nor did we want him too) but the point is HE IS A LIAR . And when you hold him to his word he becomes threatening and starts telling you about why he can't keep his word. I tried very hard to work with him, but the excuses just kept coming. Oh and the attic that the contractor they hired to fix is now falling from the ceiling because this contractor decided instead of nailing it to the frame he would just use Caulking to hold the outside frame up on the ceiling. DO NOT BRING THESE PEOPLE INTO YOUR HOME, THEY ARE LIARS AND SCAM ARTISTS. In the end I had trusted friend come over and we did all the work ourselves and imagine that we found the problem. Ryan didn't even know what the outside vents were and just said he would take them apart so they would open. Which would let bugs in etc the list goes on and on. If anyone wants pictures or paperwork contact me. TOTAL SCAM. read more

This company and owner are a real piece of work. Unprofessional and scam artists. Owner is Jonathan Tager, and is the king of the band of scammers, and very rude if you question him. What ever they tell you believe the opposite. DO NOT PAY THEM ANY MONEY! The company has changed names so many times due to complaints and issues with previous customers. Here are a few: Southeast Air Care Southeast Duct Cleaning EN Ducts 5 Star Duct Cleaning SE Air Quality Experts I was conned under the SE Air Quality Experts. Ryan Himstedt was who came to my house, and seemed like a nice guy, but do not trust him either. Talks fast, and makes you think you have a mold problem in your A/C unit and under you house in a crawl space. He told us he would replace all our duct work for $3000, and would knock it down to $2750 if we paid cash. He wanted it all up front, and we said no. Also only wanted cash, no checks. Guess he did not want a trail of where he had taken payment. We should have known right then this guy/company was bad news. We used paypal, and he even tried to take my wife's phone to make the payment to himself, which no professional would do without being asked to do so, but it does not stop there. Next day or so they come out do the so called work, and leave without even telling us it was finished, so I go look at the work, and wow is all I can say. They put in about 3 feet of flex duct which by the way they say is the best quality but looks like an over-sized hefty trash bag zip-tied to another duct. Also, come to find out their definition of duct works means they will not replace or fix any "metal duct work," so basically they didn't do anything. They did put down a vapor barrier in crawl space, but did not even seal the seams of the vapor barrier. We then get a call requesting payment, which we refused based on the poor work, and that is where things turned ugly. Ryan stayed somewhat calm, but the owner (Mr. wannabe tough guy) Jonathan calls and proceeds to call us everything in the book such as cheap, lowlifes for not paying, and other degrading things to the point where we just hang up. Thinking the nightmare was over we moved on, but continued to be harassed by owner until we blocked his number. Please be aware this company is awful, and should be avoided. Please, I beg of you do not give this man or his many businesses (name changes due to complaints) any money, and help protect other people from going through the same scam myself and others have been put through. read more

Company consists of two people and not 11. The company does not hold a hvac license, plumbing license or electrical license and nor are either of them competent to do work. Not only did they scam us out of 5300, they never completed work( not even closely). Did minimum work that all has to be redone before can fix correctly. Owner gives non existent address on business card and his partner uses an alias so the consumer doesn't know he is on parole for cheats, fraud. They open companies under different names after getting bad reviews. They got in our house to do HVAC and dryer vent cleaning. read more

DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY Called the for duct cleaning Ryan came out and he was very nice selling work that he never intended on doing he told my mom that cleaning her ducts would do her no good as she had black mold growing on her coil recommended that she replace the unit she informed him that she didn't have that kind of money right now so he recommended that she clean the coil and install a UV light to combat the mold growth and clean the air then he would clean the ducts after the install was "finished" she suspected something was not right so she had a third party check the unit no UV light ,no coil cleaned ,no ducts cleaned NOTHING was done but he gave her a fat bill for $675 to do absolutely nothing when she called asking why none of the quoted and paid for work was not done she got no good answers she told him she wanted her money back he got upset and told her that she was disrespectful and he would not give her a refund it was not until she threatened legal action that he would give her a full refund guys are con artist will take your money not do any of the promised work no one should use this company for anything read more

Have been dealing with this company since August; saw their advertisement on the Facebook Market Place for cleaning out ducts/dryer vents. BIG SCAM; Ryan came out, went under my crawl space to the furnace and of course MOLD! Hello, we live in the south, mold is everywhere! Anyway what was advertised for $100 quickly turned to $700+ to treat mold and install a UV light. Of course if I could pay CASH he would knock it down to $550. I agreed and went to get the cash for him by the time I got back he was all done, surprise, surprise. Said he would have to come back to actually suck out the vents after the MOLD treatment had time to work, so he was supposed to come back the following week....Ryan has made several appointments since August and has never showed up, I finally told him and the Owner of this company, Jonathan Tager that I didn't want either of them on my property ever again. Oh and the best thing is that by him opening up the furnace he broke something and my emergency cut off keeps tripping and I have to crawl under the house and reset it! DO NOT TRUST THESE JERKS! read more