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American Home Shield is a scam. I purchased a home warranty a year ago and opted to purchase a warranty with an upgraded coverage to cover the pool and hot tub because I had concerns about issues that might arise in the future with these items.

At closing, I received a paper documenting the purchase of the warranty and a promise from American Home Shield to send me my full contract package in the coming days that would detail my coverage that way if I ever had an issue with any equipment or appliances with the house or pool or hot tub that I would know and understand my coverage. Here it is two weeks before my warranty is to expire and I have an issue with my pool light (electrical). I called American Home Shield and submitted a service request and the contractor came out and diagnosed the problem. He said that it should not be an issue at all for American Home Shield to cover it we do these all the time for them.

Later on that day I received a voicemail from American Home Shield saying they denied the claim. I'm out a $75 service fee for the contractor for nothing. The contractor is irate with American Home Shield because they're saying the pool light is not a part of the pool. How absurd is that!

It is pool equipment it is a part of the pool. I called back to American Home Shield and asked to speak with a manager and the lady said that an email request had to be submitted to have a manager give you a call back. I said no I will speak to a manager or I will not get off the phone. So finally a lady named Portia got on the phone and I'm almost positive she was not a legitimate manager because was not professional and just kept saying there is nothing we can do and that we did send you a contract on April 26th when we didn't even close on our house till after that date.

The bottom line is that American Home Shield doesn't care if they send you a contract, they would prefer if you didn't know what is covered or not. They just want you to purchase the warranty and then they start subjectively deciding whether they want to cover your appliance or home items or not. There is currently 7,990 complaints that have been closed by American Home Shield in the last three years. I say closed because who really knows if the customer was really satisfied with the result of their complaint.

I will tell everyone I know to not ever purchase a home warranty from American Home Shield. It's very telling in business when you have to keep changing your name.

American Home Shield has been known by at least 5 other names. Please save yourself time, energy, and money and don't deal with this scam of a company.

Reason of review: Problems with payment.

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