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The Clearwater HVAC contract, and the company it is measured against

Reliant Heating and Air Conditioning, LLC returns on six of the fifteen Clearwater HVAC searches this contract tracks. Their best placement across those six is fifth. On the largest of the fifteen they come back seventh of a field of seven, and four other operators working this market return in the same lists.

HVAC — the mark

Reliant Heating and Air Conditioning, LLC

Clearwater

Holds six of the fifteen HVAC searches, best placement fifth, and eight years on the operating company.

Open

Every reading on this page came from a public source that anyone can check. Each one names the register or platform it was read from, and the date it was read, in the list at the bottom.

The searches they hold, and where they come back

The contract fixes fifteen searches in writing before any work starts — the ones somebody in Clearwater actually types when they need hvac. This is where Reliant Heating and Air Conditioning, LLC came back on the ones they hold, and what came back above them. A position reads “5 of 6” because it is a place in the list that search returned, not a rank we can see inside Google.

Where Reliant Heating and Air Conditioning, LLC returns on the fifteen searches this contract tracks
The searchWhere they came backAbove them
HVAC Clearwater FL7 of 71 directory, 2 franchise, 3 independent
best HVAC in Clearwater6 of 75 directories, none
HVAC company Clearwater Florida7 of 81 directory, 1 franchise, 3 independent
HVAC services near Clearwater FL6 of 82 directories, 2 franchise, 1 independent
AC installation Clearwater FL5 of 92 directories, 1 franchise, 1 independent
Who is the most trusted HVAC business in Clearwater, FL?9 of 94 directories, 1 independent

6 of the fifteen, read once on August 1, 2026. A single reading on a single day is a snapshot, not a trend, and nothing here claims a position holds tomorrow. Counts of who came back above them cover the domains whose owner we could establish; where we could not, the domain is left out of those counts rather than guessed into one, so they are a floor.

Who they are, on the record

Every line here is a filing the company made itself, read from the state’s own register on August 1, 2026. It is here because a contract names a company, and a company is whatever the register says it is.

Register

Reliant Heating and Air Conditioning, LLC

Company on the register
Reliant Heating and Air Conditioning LLC
Florida document number
L18000071699
Registered
20 March 2018
Status, from the detail record
ACTIVE
Name at formation
Bathke Heating and Air Conditioning LLC — the record was renamed on 18 May 2018
Years from the operating company's registration
8
An earlier registration of the same trading name
2 February 2006 — document P06000017200, struck off in September 2007 with no annual report ever filed
Between the two registrations
Ten years and six months in which no company of this name stood on the register. Recorded, and not counted toward the eight.
Air-conditioning certificate
CAC1819428 — Certified Air Conditioning Contractor
Certificate standing
Current, Active — held since 7 May 2018
Annual reports
Eight consecutive years, 2019 through a 2026 report on 27 April

Read from the register’s own detail pages, not from a search result. A found record is not an active record, and a status in a results list is not a status.

Why we are willing to name them

Naming a real company in public is a decision, not a flourish. Three things have to be true before a business appears on this board, and each one is a reading rather than an opinion. A business that fails any of them is not named, and the trade ships without a target — which has happened.

  1. The money behind them is their own

    The two people who sign for this company sign for six Florida entities, and every one of the six names a natural person as its registered agent rather than an agent service. Each record's event list is annual reports, one amendment and one name change — the register shows no merger and no conversion anywhere in the chain, and no corporate member row on any of the six.

  2. The company and the certificate are both current today

    The company's own detail record reads ACTIVE with eight consecutive annual reports, the most recent accepted on 27 April 2026. The department's licensee record for certificate CAC1819428 reads Current, Active — read this time from the state's own record rather than from a bureau's copy of it, which is what the earlier pass had.

  3. The licence route was tested in both directions before it was trusted

    The same route was run in the same session with a certificate number known to exist, which returned two populated records, and with one that does not exist, which returned a no-records page. The instrument tells the two apart, so the standing it reports on this company's certificate is a reading. The fifteen searches were run once and are published as one run.

The field they sit in

Forty-eight distinct domains came back across the fifteen searches, and twenty-four of them resolve to an owner. Directories hold the most places; four franchise brands return from their franchisors' own domains; and two private-equity-held groups trade on their own brand names with no parent named anywhere on the page.

Who is competingDomains
Directories and lead aggregators12
National franchise brands4
Private-equity-held groups2
Independent local firms6
Seen too rarely to classify24
Distinct domains in total48

Counted across all fifteen searches. A domain seen once or twice is left unclassified rather than counted as independent — not knowing who owns something is not the same as knowing it is local.

What their reviews say, and what they do not

Reliant Heating and Air Conditioning, LLC shows 391 reviews at 4.9 on ProFindr. ProFindr is a directory, so the figure is a directory's and not Google's, and the same numbers render on two of its URLs — one source read twice is not corroboration. On that same page the same day, sorted by review count, they are sixth of the ten firms it lists: five carry more. Yelp's figure for them, reaching us through Bing's business panel, is 4.5 from fifteen reviews. Nothing here is added to anything else.

You will not find a Google review count anywhere on this site. Google Maps returns a page built by JavaScript to every automated reader we have, on every one of these businesses, so any Google figure we published would be one we had not actually read. Where a number appears, it names the platform it came from instead.

How long they have been visible

Their domain has been archived since November 2019, and the page carrying the air-conditioning repair offer first appears three days earlier, inside the same November 2019 window. First captures only: an archive dates when an asset became visible, and it holds no record of search results at all. The register runs alongside it: the operating company was registered in March 2018 and has eight consecutive annual reports behind it. An earlier corporation of the same trading name, registered in February 2006 and struck off in 2007, sits on the register too — recorded here, and not counted toward the eight.

What we are not claiming

Research turns up things that do not survive a second look, and things that are true but not ours to publish. Both are listed here, because a page that prints only the flattering half of its own evidence is a sales page, and this is supposed to be a record.

That 391 is their Google review count.
It is one directory's number on one hostname. Google Maps served a page built by JavaScript to every automated reader we sent at it, on all thirteen trades, so there is no Google figure on this board for anybody.
That fifteen is their Yelp count, read from Yelp.
Fifteen is the figure inside Bing's business panel. Yelp's own page is closed to every automated reader we have, in both directions, and a closed door is not a zero. The platform is named beside the number for exactly that reason.
A suggestion that surfaced on their brand term.
Google's own suggestion service returned something on the head brand term that we recorded and did not publish. Suggestion order is ordinal and suggestion counts are not volumes, so a suggestion is not evidence about a business — and an adverse one is never published here, in any trade.
Anything about who is buying advertising on these searches.
The one free paid-placement route returned a landing document to a query our own method file records as carrying seven advertiser markers the same week. The control failed, so the instrument failed. Neither “they buy this search” nor “nobody does”.
The identity of the firm with the largest count on that directory page.
It is not on our roster and it was not chased. The number is published because the page prints it beside our target; the name is not published because we do not have it, and guessing at it would be worse than the gap.

Which Clearwater HVAC searches does Reliant Heating and Air Conditioning come back on?

Reliant Heating and Air Conditioning returns on six of the fifteen Clearwater HVAC searches this contract tracks: four head terms, one installation term and one conversational question. Their strongest placement is fifth, on the installation term. On the first three head terms they come back last, sixth and seventh.

The fifteen are fixed in writing before any work starts, and they are composed by the same function that grades the contract at day ninety — not chosen afterwards to flatter a result. A position reads “7 of 7” because it is a place in the list that search returned, which runs six to ten long. It is not a rank we can see inside Google, and no label here implies otherwise.

Four other operators working this market return in those same result lists. That count was re-read rather than carried forward, and it came back as the same four.

How many reviews does the Clearwater HVAC target have, and who has more?

One directory lists Reliant Heating and Air Conditioning at 391 reviews and 4.9. The same page lists ten firms for this market. Sorted by review count Reliant is sixth of the ten: five listings there carry more, at 1,086, 858, 782, 738 and 457, while the directory's own ordering puts them second.

That full register is the honest form of the figure, and it is why it is here. Publishing 391 and stopping would be true and would be less than half of what the page says on the same day.

The firm with the largest count on that page is not on our roster and we have not identified it. That is stated rather than left out. None of these figures is a Google count, none of them was read from a platform the business controls, and none of them is added to any other — they are separate populations on separate hostnames and the arithmetic between them means nothing.

How long has the Clearwater HVAC target been trading under this name?

Eight years, counted from the operating company's own Florida registration on 20 March 2018. The register carries this trading name a second time, twelve years earlier: a corporation registered on 2 February 2006 and struck off in September 2007. We record that earlier registration and we do not count it.

Both records are real, and only one of them is a tenure. The 2006 corporation never filed an annual report, and Florida dissolved it for that on 14 September 2007. The company operating today was registered on 20 March 2018 — ten years and six months later — under the identical name, and renamed itself eight weeks after that. The state's own name-history record dates the change, and the person who was president and registered agent of the 2006 corporation signs for the company today.

So there is a document joining the two records, and a document by itself is not enough. Our rule for counting a predecessor asks two things: that a filing connects them, and that the business actually carried on — the older company still standing when the newer one is formed, or wound up soon after it. Neither holds here. Nothing of this name existed on the register for a decade, and the earlier company did not hand anything over; it lapsed.

That matters because of what the number is for. Years on the register is a price input, and it is there to say how entrenched an incumbent is — how much history a challenger has to displace. Ten and a half years of not trading is the opposite of entrenchment. Counting from 2006 would price this contract as though the target had been holding this market since 2006, which no filing shows and nobody has claimed.

An earlier version of this page led on twenty years, and it is worth saying so rather than quietly restating the number. The 2006 registration stays here because a buyer who pulls the record will find it, and finding it on this page, already weighed, is better than finding it afterwards and wondering what else got rounded up.

The same two people sign for six Florida entities in total. Four of the six answer to one principal address, and three of those four were registered inside the eleven months before this reading — a plumbing company, an electrical company and a construction company. That is a single family operator adding three trades in one year, filed and readable, and it is the most substantial piece of market structure this pass produced.

Where each of these came from

Every register and platform read for this page, with the date it was read. Follow any of them and you will land where we landed.

  1. Florida Division of Corporations — Company detail record

    search.sunbiz.org · read August 1, 2026

  2. Florida Division of Corporations — Name-history record

    search.sunbiz.org · read August 1, 2026

  3. Florida Division of Corporations — Entity-name search on the earlier trading name

    search.sunbiz.org · read August 1, 2026

  4. Florida Division of Corporations — Fictitious-name register, read as an alphabetical window

    dos.sunbiz.org · read August 1, 2026

  5. Department of Business and Professional Regulation — Licensee detail record

    myfloridalicense.com · read August 1, 2026

  6. ProFindr — Directory listing for this market

    profindr.com · read August 2, 2026

  7. Better Business Bureau — Business profile

    bbb.org · read August 1, 2026

  8. Google Maps — Business listing, attempted once

    google.com · read August 1, 2026

What this contract costs, and why this number

The hvac contract is $11,100 for ninety days against Reliant Heating and Air Conditioning, LLC. Half is due on execution and half only if you finish ahead of them. The figure is computed from four readings — how many of the fifteen searches they hold, how many other firms are ranking alongside them, how long the company has existed, and how consolidated the trade is — and it is scaled against the other twelve trades on the board rather than pulled from a rate card.

How the result is measured, in full →Every published price →

Common questions

Why publish that the Clearwater HVAC target is sixth by review count?
Because the page that gives us the 391 also gives us the other nine, and printing only the comparisons that flatter our own argument would make this a sales page. The board is supposed to be a record. If a number cuts against the offer, it goes up with the rest, and you get to weigh it yourself before you sign anything.
Does eight years on the register make the HVAC contract harder to win?
It is one of four readings the price is computed from, and it moves the price. Eight is counted from the operating company's own 2018 filing. Florida does carry the same trading name from 2006, but that corporation filed no annual report, was struck off in 2007, and nothing of the name stood on the register for the decade in between — so we record it and do not count it. Age is not a ranking factor by itself in any case. Six of the fifteen searches are theirs; nine are not held by them at all.
Why does the HVAC page say the fifteen searches were run only once?
Our own standard is that a published position is what two separate runs agree on. The second run could not be executed in that session and no substitute surface passed its own control, so the positions in the table are one reading. We would rather publish that sentence than publish a number and let you assume it was settled.

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