Let me tell you my experience with what lead me to choosing this company to repair my AC and why I am giving them a 5 star rating. My 15 year old central air started to blow regular air about 5 days ago, luckily this week has not been worse than 92 degrees so even though it's been hot during the day, the evenings have been able to cool off enough to be comfortable for sleep.
As this was our first encounter with an AC issue since we bought our condo, we did not know who to call for repair. So I began my search with Yelp and quickly realized there are many companies out there with great ratings. After reading countless reviews over 3-4 days, they all started to read similar and became more difficult to choose from. So I made my first call to a company with the most positive reviews such as one with over 150 five stars but when I called, I got a voicemail which says they weren't able to accept new appointments until middle of August! I tried the next company with 130 five stars and they basically said the same thing, can't take new orders until August. That started to stress my out!! Then I tried a couple others stellar rated ones and they said they aren't servicing cities that aren't right next to where they are located because they have taken too many service requests already! What the...!? Then I tried my luck with 2-3 more and I got responses like there is a $59 upfront service fee that can't be applied to the actual repair + $45 every 30 mins afterwards. Another said they charge $90 just to come out. Another put me on hold for 5 mins to check their schedule then said they have to call me back except they never did. And another didn't speak good English. I then gave up on calling and started to send emails thru their Yelp pages to several others but would not get any response at all. The only one that did reply said $75 upfront and then "quoted" $400 to change out the starter fan or replace compressor fan or retrofit the unit...all before he has even come out to look at the AC! I had pretty much given up at that point and began thinking I need to mentally prepare to face the warm up this weekend. Worse yet, I dreaded I may have to tell my wife and kids that we might have to bear the heat until August when the next service appointment could become available.
Then I stumbled across Truman Air which only has a handful of 5 stars (but all 5s). What I found different about them is that their Yelp site noted to be reachable 24 hrs a day 7 days a week and had a company website that doesn't boast to be the best, instead they mentioned their technicians are factory trained and certified and that their service fee is only $40 which can be applied towards repairs. Nice!!! Also they give discounts to seniors, military, and first time customers. There is a schedule service button on their webpage so I've figured I've go nothing to lose at that point since it was already past 7pm Friday night. So I left my info including my preferred date (tmmrw) and time (8am-11am).
To my surprise I woke up the next morning and realized they texted me to say they will come out Saturday morning between 8-11am to fix my AC! I couldn't believe my luck but began to grow skeptical... is it really possible that an actually good company could come out within about 12 hrs after I left my info when no one else have been able to do so without a lengthy wait. I even wondered if they could be here so fast because they don't have business or will gouch and upsell me. Well, let me tell you that all my worries were invalid because my AC is now working colder than I can ever remembered since we moved in. For the first time in many years, I had to turn "Off" the air at 5 pm because it is too cold in my condo (we used to have to run it past midnight in order to cool it off to a comfortable level). Two people showed up at 9:30am, most notably a guy who identified himself as "Charles" who was polite, courteous, spoke good English, and was very knowledgeable without doing any hard upsell. Him and the guy who came with him removed their shoes before each time they would step into the house and they would repeat taking off and put back on over and over. That's just thoughtful and speaks volume about how courteous they are. After examining the unit, Charles quickly identified the problems and give us a fair price for the repairs which took about an hr and a half. Even though it's never easy to pay for repairs of any kind, when the service was so good, and the persons who provided the service were so pleasant, I can tell you that it made it so much easier to pay. I am very happy to have stumbled across Truman Air and had Charles and his collegue repair our AC today. I strongly recommend them for your own air conditioning needs. read more