Any recommendations for a good reputable home warranty, IE home repair company?
Better yet, any out there I should stay away from?

I just canceled my contract with First American Home Buyers Protection. I won't go into the details except to say that they are not the least bit reputable.

I have two homes, and while one is more, or less, brand new, the other, has had it's share of costly repairs lately. Therefore, I decided to get a repair contract on both. First American is a joke.

I had a contract with another company 20 years ago, but I forgot who that was with.

Anything much more complicated than replacing furnace filters, or aerators on faucets and I'm lost. OK I'm exaggerating, but you get the idea.

Any recommendations on who to use, or who to stay away from would be appreciated.

Thanks

Cliff

Florida esp South Fla. has numerous Home Owner Warrantee Companies due in part to the numerous older folks and folks having two homes. Basically it's an Insurance Policy that your HVAC System, Plumbing and Appliances will need repair and the home owner does not want to accept the risk of a "costly" expenditure from any given item(s) going bad needing repair or replacement so he pays smaller chunks of $$ continuously for a policy. There are two key problems: #1 HVAC System, Plumbing and Appliances don't really require that much repairs/service. When there is a need for repairs or worse yet replacement you can almost be assured excessive times to get the work done and a not in your favor attitude toward replacement (you get a bargain basement replacement--you know the Mrs wants a certain new style or new fancy features the old one did not have). I know one Gal that was jacked-around roasting her ass off for weeks yes weeks on attempted repairs and eventually replacement on her HVAC System durring the middle of the hot Florida Summer...The Dealers for this Contract Services stuff are forever in hot water with the BBB and Consumer Services Groups.
Save the money you'd pay contiuously for this stuff for the Rainy Day you need repairs replacement and then pay for it yourself as a savy shopper, chances are good you will come out much better unless your home and nearly every appliance in it are lemons

.......HVAC, and other units that use/consume their products. They usually solicit these contracts with a flyer in the monthly billing explaining cost and coverage, JMO, Rod.

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1957 C-600 Cab-over carhauler w/390-4V, 2-speed rear-end
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"There will ALWAYS be an FE in my LiFE"

Several times a year we get new customers who are totally frustrated with their "home warranty specialists" and walk away. Seems that universally service is slow, once it's done it's by some unknown Spoodroid working out of a station wagon, and 99 % of the time they don't have the part needed with them.
If we unknowingly are involved in with a customer with one of these "warranties" we are almost never cheap enough, and when we are getting payment is often a problem.
You have no say over who does your service or installation, or what equipment is used. Many times a customer will have a furnace or AC replacement done, and the get a Janitrol/Goodman BOL unit. I'm with putting your money in a savings account, and getting a REPUTABLE contractor to do the work.
Regards, Jim

66 Fairlane 428 GTA

My Dad was a home builder for as long as I've been alive. When warranty service became available many previously unemployable tradesmen flocked to this new method of generating customers with no need to work. Now he is retired and owns a few rental apartments and the warranty type service providers still seem to be the guys previously unemployable; he has had much better success with a local appliance repairman, and regular subtrades; only problem is finding reliable painters.

Gary

i just posted in bb's thread so here goes. what does this have to do with the forum. you must have posted here by mistake. DEAR ABBY is not on this web sight. a off topic question every now and then doesn't bother me but probadly 90% of what you and bb post has absolutely nothing to do with the theme of this forum.i'm sure there are better places to ask than this forum. so now everybody can jump my ass for my post, but don't worry i'm tuff i can take it.lol ...gopher

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i didn't just get coal,i got politicly correct clean coal.counting the days till we redistrubte the wealth LOL. really i'm just saying as others have this way off topic stuff just serves to run informative threads off the first page quicker. a good example is jay's threads, they get kinda long but they are about something that is informative and carry lots of opinions from everybody on this forum. if you read every thread like i do you can always come away with more knowledge than you had when you started reading. collectively as a whole there's not much about these old motors that we don't know.....gopher

I understand you made Don pay for his own lunch after you invited him out. Is this true?? Ronw

ron what can i say!! don knew the job was dangerous when he signed on.lol.....gopher

Using the "Gopher principal"..all are invited to dine...anytime

M.

....home of the TexasOutsiders
www.texasthunderperformance.com

Hey, I'm proud to buy the Gopher's lunch anytime. And yes, this is FE related, as in Forever Eatin'. Don

Slammin' this post.....I wonder why in the hell some folks seem to think that they can get answers to thier home appliance questions on a frickin' FE ENGINE FORUM. Or how to clean a motorcycle tank.....and the moderators, who will cut yer heart out for a simple question about a FORD SMALL BLOCK........MUCH LESS A DREADED GM PRODUCT...but still allow these few to continue to use, and here I go and do it....waste time and board space. Cliff needs a home improvement course and a GENUINE FORD BOOK ON HOW TO SPELL GALAXIE...but anyone who is "restoring" one should know how to spell the name of the dam car that "he" is restoring.
Home Theatre questions?........on a dam ENGINE FORUM?.......and poor ole Gopher ...lol...let FElony say one thing and SLAM, SLAM, SLAM.........even if his topics are FE related..........

MODERATORS......GETCHERSHITTOGETHER.

Mark

....home of the TexasOutsiders
www.texasthunderperformance.com

and when asked why he was looking for them around the lamp post, he said, because the light is better here.

And much o/t is asked here, because the place is like a band of brothers willing to help a fellow brother, and the range of of knowledge here is spectacular. Who'd a thunk such a brilliant lot would worship the FE?

Create a "OT" forum, just like the classifieds and photos, easy to do costs nothing. or squash all OT posts like you do for any for sale ads put in the main forum.

BTW as long as you are creating an additional forum, how about a 63/64 Galaxie forum to keep all those posts together in on place.

blast away fellas.
-blizz

-15 this morning, I'm dreaming about warmer places with mosquitoes.