If you know the right person, you can get anything done.
Once I had a major car issue late at night on a Sunday, just before a holiday, and I thought I was screwed. A friend of mine said he knew a guy who could help me. After a quick phone call, I went to an overnight garage, where there was a full crew of car mechanics working graveyard shift. They were able to hook me up and I drove away within two hours… all because of knowing the right person. Some weeks ago I had a similar experience involving my central HVAC system, one that was only recently resolved. It seems that the previous owners to this house had managed their own HVAC system over the years. Instead of having it done by professionals, they had tinkered with the air conditioning and the furnace and modified them in their own ways. What this meant now, after many years of experimentation, was that the central HVAC system was a Frankenstein’s monster of parts and pieces from different systems. None of the HVAC techs I talked to would help me out, their own response was that I needed a completely new system. Finally I talked to a friend of a friend, who had his own history with custom-building air conditioners. He was a weirdo and a stoner, but was also amazing with breaking down and rebuilding old cooling systems. I still couldn’t afford a completely new HVAC system, I just needed this old rickety pile of junk to start working again!