I offered him the cellphone numbers for a few local Heating and A/C companies that offered free estimates.
I have some great news! My acquaintance Sam and I resolved our lingering problems, and it seems like our friendship is on solid ground again. A word to the wise – don’t let currency get in the way of a great friendship. A few months ago Sam was in a slender spot financially speaking, and he asked me for a favor. At the time it was the middle of Summer, the weather was humid and the temps were in the 90s every a single afternoon. The a/c in Sam’s apartment broke down, and he simply affords to pay for repairs. I offered him the cellphone numbers for a few local Heating and A/C companies that offered free estimates. A few days later Sam had a service cost bid from six unusual businesses, and he couldn’t afford any of them! It would take a bare minimum of two thousand bucks to have his central AC system repaired. As a compromise, I told him that he could buy a window-mounted a/c, which would be enough to cool down his living room or his residing room (but not both), and sam didn’t have the currency for that, either, so being a great acquaintance I took him to the hardware store and spent $400 on a small AC component for him. After that I didn’t see Sam around as much, mostly because he felt ashamed that I paid for this a/c and he couldn’t pay me back. It was only last weekend that he invited me over to his apartment – he showed me that his central AC was working again, and he repaid my currency… Problem solved.