Why is it important who comes to your home to fix your heating and cooling systems?
Some property owners who don’t put too much thought into maintenance might not really have an answer for this – but property owners who are engaged, who understand the challenges they face, often know why they want to find a firm they can trust.
Let’s talk about how these relationships work, and why these services are so important to people who value their financial investment in their real estate purchases.
In Your Home
When you call HVAC technicians, they show up at your home (or at your investment property.) They are guests who you ask to enter. With that in mind, it’s important to be able to trust them on a personal level and be comfortable with the people who are going in and out of your property.
Working with Your Systems
Here’s another big reason why trust is so important in this type of working relationship.
For many people who need routine care and maintenance for heating and cooling systems, these systems have seen better days. Yes, new systems do need maintenance and periodic inspection, but they don’t need as much labor-intensive work as older or ailing systems.
Older HVAC systems can be a lot less a lot like a tower built of Jenga blocks – the wrong push could send the whole thing sprawling.
With that in mind, you want to make sure that you have HVAC people who know how to handle an antiquated or finicky system. You don’t want to call someone and have the system be worse than it was before, after they leave!
So having trust in the professional expertise of these companies matters, too.
Ongoing Relationships
There’s also that saying in the used car business that you don’t sell somebody one car – you sell them six or seven cars over 40 years.
That’s even more true in this industry, because instead of switching cars every few years, you have the same HVAC systems for decades. Of course, that’s not a recommended best practice in the industry, but that’s for another blog! Anyway, another way to say it is that you will be heating and cooling the same house for decades – unless you pull up stakes and move.
The bottom line is that you’re going to be seeing these people more than once, so it pays to have a good relationship with your HVAC contractors. Let us help!