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- From: mje@pookie.pass.wayne.edu (Michael Joseph Edelman)
- Subject: Re: home warrantee
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.163106.18971@cs.wayne.edu>
- Sender: usenet@cs.wayne.edu (Usenet News)
- Reply-To: mje@pookie.pass.wayne.edu
- Organization: Wayne State University
- References: <1992Nov23.155235.14092@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:31:06 GMT
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- In article 14092@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov, smjeff@lerc05.lerc.nasa.gov (Jeff Miller) writes:
- >In article <1egnrvINNfqo@newmdata.meaddata.com> davidm@meaddata.com (David Miller) writes:
- >>I just want to plug AHS (American Home Shield). The seller of my house
- >>furnished the policy. The water heater wasn't working quite right so I
- >>check the elements, and sure enough, the lower element showed infinite
- >>resistance. So, instead of following directions from the net on how to
- >>replace it, I called AHS. They had a plumber out in 24 hours to fix it.
- >>It was easy to get through to them, they were prompt, etc. Couldn't ask
- >>for more. I paid only the $35 deductable to the plumber (I know, the element
- >>was probably less but I didn't have to do anything this way).
- >>
- >>I figured the AHS policy would be pretty useless when I bought the house.
- >>I glad I was wrong.
- >>
- >>And I'm not connected to AHS in any way.
- >>
- >>Dave
- [...]
- >I disagree. In most cases the home warranty is not going to pay for
- >itself. The warranty company is not going to replace something if they
- >can patch it together so that it lasts until the warranty is over.
- >
- >Your warranty probably cost you around $250. So far you have paid $285
- >to have an old water heater patched together so that it lasts for a few more
- >months.
- >
- >This is only my opinion. In my case I did not get a home warranty and
- >I don't regret it. Are there any people out there who actually saved
- >money by getting a home warranty? I'm also curious to know if a home
- >warranty company ever replaced something that broke (like a furnace) or
- >do they just patch it back together so that it lasts for the duration
- >of the warranty period.
- >
- [...]
- Friends of mine had a very good experience with a home warranty. Their gas
- oven crapped out and they were able to replace it with a top-of-the-line
- oven and range. They're very happy. But the real reason for buying a warranty
- is to protect yourself against the real high-ticket items, like a septic
- field that needs replacing, a foundation that has been eroded from underneath,
- restless spirits rising from building the house over a cursed graveyard, vampires,
- the curse of Tutankhamen, that sort of thing.
- --mike
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