Refrigerator in the rental warm and the tenant on the phone? Dryer in the laundry closet running an hour with the clothes still damp? I'm Anatoli — the owner who answers (813) 522-0014; I or Nick, my technician, shows up. I repair refrigerators, freezers, ice makers, washers, dryers, ovens and ranges across the University area — the unincorporated part of Hillsborough County, FL, around Fletcher and Fowler Avenues next to the USF campus. The $69 diagnostic applies 100% to the repair, the price is in writing before I start, and if I can't fix it, you don't pay.
- $69 diagnosticApplied 100% to the repair
- Same-dayCall before 2 PM, Mon–Sat
- 90-day warrantyParts & labor on every repair
- Owner-operated20+ years hands-on
- Licensed & insuredFlorida · EPA 608
- No fix, no feeIf I can’t repair it, you don’t pay
Refrigerators first, then the rest — around USF
Refrigerator repair
Not cooling, warm fridge with a cold freezer, leaks, noise. French door, side-by-side, counter-depth.
Details →Sub-Zero & built-in
Sealed-system diagnostics, evaporator and condenser work, 12-month parts & labor warranty on built-ins.
Details →Ice maker repair
No ice, hollow cubes, ice room frozen solid — hard-water symptoms first.
Details →Washer repair
Not draining, not spinning, leaking, walking across the floor.
Details →Dryer repair
No heat, long cycles, squeal or thump. Gas and electric.
Details →Oven & range repair
Igniters, bake elements, control boards, a door that won’t seal.
Details →Also dishwashers, stand-alone freezers, wine coolers and commercial refrigeration for restaurants and stores in University ($129 commercial diagnostic).
Where in the University area I actually go
I cover the whole University area under ZIPs 33612 and 33613: the apartment corridors along Fletcher Avenue, Fowler Avenue and Bruce B. Downs, the side streets between Nebraska Avenue and 30th Street, the neighborhoods west toward I-275, the student housing around the Rithm at Uptown site, and the older homes north of Fletcher up to the county line. From Zephyrhills I come down I-75 and get off at Fletcher or Fowler, so it is one of the shortest drives on my map.
The University area sits between Temple Terrace to the east, the City of Tampa and Busch Gardens to the south, Lake Magdalene across I-275 to the west, and Pebble Creek and Wesley Chapel up Bruce B. Downs to the north. Every address on that loop gets the same $69 diagnostic and the same written price — no zone fee, no "apartment rate."
ZIP codes 3361233613
What breaks in University-area homes — and why
Rentals, turnover and the refrigerator nobody maintains. A refrigerator in a student rental gets opened forty times a day, cleaned never, and moved twice a year. The condenser coil packs with dust, the door gasket tears, and the first symptom is a fridge that runs all day and still cannot hold 40°F. A coil cleaning and a gasket is a cheap visit; a compressor that overheated for a year because nobody noticed is not. For the property managers I work with, the routine is simple: tenant calls, I coordinate access, the written quote goes to the owner, the fridge is cold by evening. The refrigerator not cooling guide is what I run, in that order.
Laundry closets and stacked pairs. Apartment laundry here is usually a stacked pair or a one-piece laundry center in a closet, and closet laundry has its own failure modes: a dryer vent hose crushed flat behind the unit so the dryer runs long and blows its thermal fuse, a front-load door boot that starts to leak, a drain pump full of coins and hair ties. I bring what it takes to pull a stacked unit and get behind it, so nobody has to unstack anything before I arrive. Most laundry here is electric, which means heating elements and thermostats far more often than igniters.
1950s–70s houses on original wiring. The side streets between I-275 and the campus are small block homes, many of them rentals now, and the dryer outlet in a 1965 house has been under load for sixty years. When a dryer heats intermittently or trips the breaker, I test the 240V receptacle and the cord before I blame the element — if the outlet is the fault, that is an electrician's job and I say so. What I will not do is put a new sealed system into a 15-year-old top-freezer; if the repair is more than half the cost of a comparable new one, I tell the owner that, and the $69 buys exactly that answer.
Repair or replace? The honest math
Age and the kind of failure decide most of it. No prices here — you get the real number in writing after the diagnostic.
Brands I work on in University
Independent, not factory-authorized — which means I fix the appliance in front of me instead of following a warranty script, and I carry the parts that actually fail on these models.
Also Viking, Wolf, Thermador, Miele, Electrolux, Kenmore and the rest — every brand page.
LG dryers in stacked laundry closets near USF
Stacked laundry is the University-area standard, and more and more of those stacks carry an LG badge. LG dryers are among the more dependable machines I work on, which is exactly why the call is rarely about the dryer. It is about the closet: a vent hose crushed flat behind the unit, lint packed into the wall duct, a thermal fuse that finally gave up. Many LG dryers even report it themselves — a d80 or d90 on the display means the exhaust is mostly blocked. The dryer is telling on the building.
For an owner or a property manager the order matters, because a new heating element on a blocked vent fails the same way. So I pull the stack, clear and test the airflow, then check the fuse, the thermostat and the element; most laundry here is electric. In the 1960s houses on the side streets I test the 240V outlet as well. The tenant gets heat back, the written quote goes to whoever owns the machine, and the steps are on the dryer repair page.
Drive time to the University area, honestly
Search data: Ubersuggest, U.S. monthly volume, Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 — "appliance repair tampa" shown because University is too small to have a reliable monthly number of its own. Tampa-area searches for appliance repair peaked in February at close to double the summer months, with December and January right behind — which lines up with the University area's own rhythm of move-ins and turnover, so from the holidays through winter a call before 2 PM is what keeps the same-day slot open.
University-area word of mouth
BBB Accredited, A+ rated, and more than 200 five-star reviews across major platforms. I don't write testimonials for this page — read them in customers' own words, with names, towns and my replies, on the reviews page.
What University-area customers — tenants, homeowners and property managers alike — describe is simple: the owner answering the phone, the fault explained in plain English, a written price before any work, and the refrigerator cold again the same day. If the honest answer is a new appliance instead of a repair — a 20-year-old top-freezer with a sealed-system leak, say — you hear that just as plainly, and it costs nothing.
Towns next to University I also cover
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Same-day appliance repair in University
Call or text (813) 522-0014, or book online. $69 diagnostic applied to your repair, written price before any work starts, and if I can’t fix it, you don’t pay.