<prompt> Human: So I spent a solid hour trying to find a well trafficked subreddit to post this in, but I saw similar questions rise to the top here, so I hope you dont mind. This still deals with money and electricity bills, so I hope thats enough. If not, please give me an alternative.So our apartments central air conditioner isnt working well. The air that comes out is slightly cooler, but doesnt work to cool down our apartment in the summer months unless we run it 247. We will put it on 70-75 degrees and itll take all day and into the night to get to that temp, running our electricity bill to outrages amounts 350-400. In fact, I dont think weve ever managed to get our apartment under 70 degrees in the summer months.We live in Southern California, specifically the Los AngelesBurbank area.Our neighbors have an AC unit that puts out freezing air and cools their apartment down in minutes and works as Ive experienced air conditioning my entire life.So when we brought the landlord in, he felt the air, said it was a few degrees cooler, and said there was nothing wrong with our AC. He said that since it blows air and the air isnt warm, that he wont do anything.Whats wrong is that were paying 300-400 in electricity every month to keep this thing running and that our apartment has never gone under 70 degrees, when our neighbors AC will cool the place down well into the 60s, if necessary, in under an hour.I guess what Im asking is, how do I deal with this? What can we do? We cant afford to pay that much for electricity all summer, but its absolutely miserable in our apartment otherwise since we live in the second story.Also, while I know that this might be the wrong subreddit for this, if someone knows of an alternative, Id be greatly appreciative!  <response>: I recently had my apartment AC fixed. If you are spending 400 per month to run this thing, it is by far cheaper to get a tech out to fix it my repair was 200 including labor. If it is cooling a little it could just be low refrigerant which is cheap and fast to fix. 