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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]checkbook did a study that maintenance contracts are worthless and in fact are ways for companies to suggest new work.

What were the emergencies? I am thinking maybe the emergenancies were inflated by your service companies and they charged a lot. I would be you were over charged on your attic insulation and all work, the contractors can smell people who are clueless from a a mile away and rip them off.[/quote]

Nope, not ripped off. They were legit emergencies, we went with some great guys to fix them. One fixed the second HVAC issue for only $10 -- cost of a part -- because he's a good guy and felt like he should have caught the issue when he fixed the first thing. They were unrelated issues though, and no way would he have caught the second issue without it becoming a problem first (bad timer on the compressor made the A/C not work).

I was hoping others would weigh in with what's a normal range for home repairs $$ around here per year. Some repairs are definitely unavoidable since, as PP put it, I don't live in a McMansion. [/quote]
It is not easy to estimate, if you bought a new mcmansion and everything is new then that's pretty straight forward.  A used home may have had different items installed at different times or are suffering from old system items (wiring, plumbing, insulation etc...)[/quote]

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