FIRST - OP, you have gotten a lot of great advice and support on this thread I do hope you will take some time to digest and formulate a game plan that will work for you. Also - please check in. You have quite a few people concerned for you.
So no ideas? Lame. Had the same ac unit at our rental 8 years ago. Went to Walmart, bought a $20 can of freon with stop leak. Still works fine. In mustache world we fix things and use them forever.
Bob Werner, while slightly off topic, your statement is so off base, I feel the need to address it. I know you like to offer contradictory opinions and shake things up on the boards. For the most part that is fine, but if the above statement is mustachain living/thinking all summed up for you, and that is the broad strokes, one size fits all solution, you are going to be painting with - you are missing out or disregarding many of the ideals that make mustachian living so attractive and important. Things like:
- Being able to look objectively at a situation and deciding when something (relationship, thing, whatever) is offering a diminishing or negative return and having the courage to let it go - despite you mental associations and attachments.
If we were talking about someones relationship to a financial adviser taking advantage of them, or a car payment on a car they love but they have hair on fire debt - would you be encouraging them to keep either? Or an investment fund with a high commission? That is essentially what this relationship is - a bad transaction emotionally, physically, mentally with a high cost attached.
- Maximizing happiness and personal fulfillment - Being able to identify what is important to us and maximizing the people/experiences and things in our life that feed us, while minimizing or removing the people/things that don't.
- Constantly improving your skills and resiliency and and surrounding yourself with the people/experiences/community/things that serve your highest self.
- Freedom to live a great life - While yes, most of the focus is on achieving FI sometimes we forget the reason BEHIND doing what we do and it essentially comes down to freedom. To have the flexibility, financial cushion and insight available to make the most out of life - to seize opportunities as they come - to embrace an alternative to operating and living from a place of scarcity and fear.