u/frankenboobehs

So we just sold our first house, we lived in the city for the last 10 years. We bought a house in a nice small quiet neighborhood, I've met more neighbors here already than I did in the past 10 years at my old house, however, I'm unsure about this situation. My house is a duplex, attached to another, we both have large front yards that connect. I understand the neighbors were trimming the yard and raking it before we moved in, because the time frame from our purchase to close was about 2 months, they were just being courteous. We r finally moved in, their kids and mine are best friends , their kids are literally in my basement every day playing with my kids, or in the backyard, or playing in our front yard, all day, every day. It is summer after all. It's a little much, how the kids are ALWAYS at my house or in my yard, but, my daughter didn't have any neighbors to play with ever at our last house, so I let them play. I noticed, the mom out front my yard today raking leaves, and the dad mowed our lawn again. We just got our lawnmower over to the new house finally, but lost the battery, so still unpacking looking for it. Both the parents don't really speak English, the kids understand a bit better, but I feel guilty. I don't want them to think they have to rake my yard or mow it, I also don't know how to bring it up, or what to even say, because of the language barrier, and I really appreciate what they've done, so I don't wanna come across like I'm telling them to stop doing our yard either. Also, we live in a neighborhood with HUGE large trees evrywhere that tower over all the houses, almost like a neighborhood build in a Forrest, but there isn't that many leaves out front my yard , maybe like 3 or 4, so I was also feeling stressed like, I don't wanna think they are mad we had a few leaves in the yard and want it cleaned so they just did it themselves. How can I approach this?

System froze, stopped working, after hours being off, turned on, working again. Then went out next day, had a tech out, said try a new filter, couldn't find anything, but system os from 2003, if it needed charge, I can't get the r22 for it, and they said if it freezes, it's a possible leak. He tried it again, came on tho, working. Next day, goes out again. Had diff tech come out, trying to sell me whole new system and furnace. Said mostly the same thing, can't charge it, with leak, almost impossible to find. I do have 1 yr home warranty however, so I called them next. They repair or replace. Had that tech out today. Also found nothing wrong, said likely filter. husband hasn't gotten to store yet fir a new one, none of the techs had one cause they said it's not a regular size, so checking out a new filter at lows tonight. They said, if we do that, and happens again, they come back no cost to me, cause the warranty. Question I have, does this sound right? Could it actually just be the filter? The one in there now, from previous owners, I'm not sure how long it's been there, but I didn't think it looked dirty at all. So we'll try that, but is this just crap they are telling me to not have to replace it, or could that be the entire issue?

It froze Saturday, we turned it off overnight, was working the next day. Then it went out again the next day, tech came put, couldn't find an issue he said. Just that it's from 2003, so it's very old, and they don't have the charge anymore for this model, so couldn't be charged even if they wanted to. But, it started working randomly when he was here, so he said take care of it and do regular maintenance. Went out the next day. Had a different company out today, says yes, needs updated refrigerate but can't get it for this type(if I did it would be over $800 a gallon and I would have to have a special person out to do it and remove the old stuff. Also said it seems to have a leak if it was freezing up. Suggested a whole new system AND Furnace because he said while ac was done in 2003, Furnace looked like it was original to the house. I told both these techs, I bought the house and it came with 1 year gome warranty that covered AC. Each of them tried to talk me out of that, telling me how they take to long, don't hire good workers, and I should just pay 11-14k with them thru financing o er the next 10 years instead. I called warranty, they claim a new unit is covered, they either repair or replace. Since 2 people said it can't be repaired, I'm assuming they'll need to do a whole new system. Coming out Friday to check it out, and I already told them what other 2 people told me. My question is, are these guys telling me lies just to get me to buy from them? Why would I put out that much money if my Warrenty covers replacing it?