It is always a crapshoot to buy a house at auction, especially when it comes to a police auction. Thanks to seizure laws, the cops can impound anything that was purchased with drug money, and then once a year they auction off all the stuff and keep the money. Police auctions often have jewelry, cars, […]
Author: Paul B.
The HVAC tech takes way too long
I don’t like people being in my house. I wish I could say it was a side effect of the COVID pandemic, but I have been like this for years. I have a social anxiety disorder, I assume, although I have never discussed it with a doctor because I don’t trust doctors. In general I […]
Broken A/C in the Air BnB
Normally, running an AirBnB is a nice job. I have found that the vast majority of guests are very considerate, and take good care of my cabin when they rent it. There are always a few bad apples, but I don’t let that spoil my opinion of people in general. The truth is, if you […]
From college to the HVAC industry
When I was a freshman at the university I pledged a sorority, and lived in their off-campus group home. For a girl from the farms of the midwest, this was all a bit of a culture shock for me, because there were parties almost every night. I made a lot of great friends in the […]
HVAC was the right path in life for me
I had two different paths I could have taken after graduating from high school. At the time it felt like the biggest decision of my life… and twenty years later, I have to say that it really was the biggest decision of my life! Some things feel important when you are young, but when you […]
Being an HVAC tech in the deep south
That is how in-demand HVAC techs are in this part of the country, where you can pick and choose any number of jobs. Many people describe the summer weather in the deep south as “swampy.” This is only accurate when you know what it’s like to be in the middle of a swamp, something most […]
Tuning up the HVAC system in the frat house
In college, I was part of the lowest tier fraternity there was. This frat wasn’t recognized by the Greek Council, nor were we allowed to have a float in the homecoming parade. We had a small, squalid frat house a mile away from campus, and everyone hated us. They hated us until we threw one […]
A nasty problem in the ductwork
I told you that I would write a new blog once we got settled into the new house. It has been a lot more problematic than I expected, and I was expecting a lot of problems! When you buy a house at auction, there are no guarantees, you get the house as-is. The roof is […]
I should have purchased the zone control sooner
I really wish I had known about the remarkable technology that is HVAC zone control much sooner. When me and my roommate were having problems with our heating and a/c temperatures, the only thing we could do was to try and negotiate with each other to find some common ground. It was easy to see […]
The HVAC equipment was all messed up
I am not usually the kind of person to have problems with their heating and a/c system, and through all the years that I lived at my old home I never had any kind of issues. However, all of the problems started when I decided to move to a different town. I had wanted to […]
The heating and a/c company provided the best service
When I started having problems with my air conditioning system, I was left unsure of what to do. I had only recently started living by myself and I was unsure as to how exactly I was supposed to go about taking care of a problem like this. I decided to ask a family member and […]