Air conditioning repair is often a racket, with unscrupulous repairmen blindsiding customers with $5,000 bills for new equipment when the old unit might have been fixed for a fraction of the cost. But that’s not how it works for David Ashmore of Ashmore Air. The guy’s honest, and his first instinct is to fix your ailing a/c instead of selling you the latest and greatest (though he can do that, too). But don’t bother Googling him, as you’ll come up empty. Ashmore’s success is built on the type of real-world word-of-mouth that social networks can still only emulate. So here’s his number — don’t lose it: Ashmore Air, 727-424-8708.
This article appears in Sep 22-28, 2011.