Joseph F.
FHFurr. Good company, gone bad.
Long time preferred plan customer for more than a decade. Scheduled free routine preferred plan cooling system maintenance inspection for my dual zone system and immediately confronted with “perceived” a/c issues before maintenance check started. Less than one hour into service technician’s inspection, was immediately told compressor in one of my units mysteriously “burned out” while technician was inspecting the unit. Proposed solution was replacing the whole system at a well above fair market price and financing through FHFurr. Immediately skeptical of “burned out” unit as I could clearly see technician had pulled the a/c unit’s breaker. Obviously, the compressor will not run if electrical power to the compressor is interrupted. While watching, I told the technician to reinstall the breaker. Miraculously, the compressor returned to normal operation. Service technician’s post inspection write up which, I have in my possession, stated, “Common winding in compressor burned out while I was here. Then went back on after about an hour.” If a motor or other electrical system is “burned out” it’s not returning to normal operation. When the FHFurr company was first acquired from the Furr’s by HomeServe, there was a noticeable change in the company’s culture, and not a good one. Since Brookfield Infrastructure Partners acquisition of HomeServe, the FHFurr business model now appears to be overly focused on aggressively upselling repairs, replacements, questionable warranty maintenance plans, and expensive memberships. As a result, this long-time customer’s confidence, and business, has been lost.

