In light of recent events in the ALI community, I’ve been taking a long, hard look at what makes us PAIL moms (I’ll never refer to myself as “a mommy,” in case you were wondering) different from regular moms. This morning, it became crystal clear.
We bought our house in August of 2010. We love this house – it is the perfect house for us – down to the geothermal heating a cooling. However, our geothermal unit is not a good one and the manufacturer actually went bankrupt (and out of business) – so there you go on the quality of what’s running our heating and cooling. It has been nothing but trouble for us since we moved in. We have a home warranty that we do keep renewing just because of this unit. If we didn’t have the warranty, it would have cost us about $2,000 in repairs in 1.5 years. Instead, it has cost us about $800. But that’s not the issue.
The issue is this. It is unseasonably warm (HOT) in Iowa right now. 77 Degrees. We finally turned on the air last night because the house was at 73 degrees. Nothing happened. Well, something happened – it got hotter and hotter and hotter. It was 77 when we went to bed and 76 when we woke up. I called our home warranty people first, and then our geothermal guy who I have on speed dial.
We likely need a new unit. This one is dying a slow, painful, expensive death. My first question was, “what does it cost?” but I knew the answer already because we hypothesized this with our repair guy this past winter when we had issues with our heating. $13,000 – $14,000*
What does this have to do with infertility? My first thought when hearing this was, “but I need to spend that money on IVF this summer.” We just saw the RE yesterday and he told us we’d do a FET first, then likely a fresh cycle if the FET doesn’t work. The total for those two things? $14,000
It’s a good thing my favorite hobby is saving money.
* Our geothermal guy is awesome, and when he came over to band-aid our unit, he told me that he’d install a new one for $10,000 because he feels bad that we have such a terrible unit that came with the house. He’ll make no money off of the purchase or installation, but he wants us with a stable unit. Such a great guy. Thanks, Bob!
All the Sun For You 
March 14, 2012 at 3:36 pm
EFF WORD! But Bob rules. The world needs more Boobs.
March 14, 2012 at 3:37 pm
Argh! BOBS! Not boobs! Damn Freudian autocorrect.
March 14, 2012 at 3:51 pm
I knew what you meant – but got a bit of a chuckle when I read it! HA!
March 14, 2012 at 7:37 pm
Holy crap! I’m so sorry! That is totally lame. There should be some sort of warranty or something, even with the company being bankrupt. There should be some kind of consumer protection in place. Glad your fix-it man is so good and honest. Those are hard to come by.
March 14, 2012 at 8:55 pm
Turns out, there is a rebate through our energy company that’s $1100, and then a tax credit for 30% of the cost. So we’re down to about $6,000. We get a second opinion tomorrow, but the guy told me over the phone that he already agrees with the first opinion. We’ll see what we end up doing – it may be the first thing we do once we’re done with IF treatments for M’s sibling. Of course, once that’s done (and assuming we’re successful), we’ll want to get a bigger vehicle for me. If it’s not one thing, it’s another 🙂