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Picasso3

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I wouldn't fret over it at all, but fresh purchase I would avoid.

We had ours go out being 18 months old with 2 adult household. Was $180 fix so nbd but its 2017 God damnit, we should have the washer and dryer nailed down tight.
 
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I've heard shit about Samsung and LG. I had an LG fridge and it was a piece of shit, but they got sued class action style over the ice maker issues, and I submitted a claim because mine had broken too. After that, I've had zero issues with mine, thankfully.

The other LG appliances here (Washer and Dryer) have given us no problems. Was just the fridge.
 
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We have Bosch W and D here in the UK, they're both fantastic, 4 years of solid use. My parents have Bosch too and theirs is 10 years old and still going strong, and my mother is the type of person to sort her washing into colours, and so does eleventy million washes per week.

When in Canada we had GE in the rental apartment, and they were shit, but they probably came with the apartment so were cheaper ones.
 
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I've had a fancy LG washing machine for about 8 years now and 3 adults in the house. Never serviced it. It just keeps chugging along with no issues.
 
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I just bought a Samsung fridge and the ice maker has already locked up. I "fixed" it last night but now it refuses to do anything but crushed ice. I probably need to call and get a warranty repair. I can't even get the fucking ice bin out. It is the worst fucking design for an ice maker I've ever seen.
 
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Small update. I guess their OMG 3 week delay on the closing was an overreaction to their predicament as they ended up formally requesting a two day extension.

I did a ton of research on appliances and there are horror stories with every brand. Consumer Reports includes some basic stats on reliability but the comments online will always feature people who have had problems...after all who goes to a message board to post that nothing is wrong with their fridge?

Gone are the days when a fridge was a purchase that lasted for 20+ years, the nominal lifespan for most appliances seems to be 7-8 years tops unless going for the ultra durable (and pricey) pro-grade manufacturers
 
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I think front loaders are much more prone to failure as their pump filters will eventually clog. Since this involves flipping it over and taking out a few screws most people consider this "broken down"

Fridge you may end up with a shitty icemaker but the compressor and cooling itself will be fine for looong time imo.

You are def right about horror stories with any brand (or anything widespread enough )
 
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We bought LG huge capacity top load washer and front load dryer a few years ago because they were even bigger than the biggest Samsung units at the time, and they've been great. We're doing laundry almost daily for a family of six, and it's been a great investment.

Our Bosch kitchen appliances have been a major disappointment except for the range/oven
 
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I had front loaders at my home in Ohio but since I moved out I bought just a standard issue top-load Maytags. I think for whatever reason recently W/D have been valuing form over function and the old school top loader washer is still the most optimal design.
 
Pops

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I'm against all these new high tech gizmos, when they break it's expensive to fix. W/D gets a hell of a lot of abuse.
 
Qhue

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So, ever the financially responsible good-guy, I've carried a renter's insurance policy ever since getting my first apartment in college. Turns out this has paid off a bit as my homeowners insurance is being written as transformation of that original policy. With the long history and such my premium is going to be roughly half what it would have been otherwise.

Yay karma!
 
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Lanx

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Qhue said:
So, ever the financially responsible good-guy, I've carried a renter's insurance policy ever since getting my first apartment in college. Turns out this has paid off a bit as my homeowners insurance is being written as transformation of that original policy. With the long history and such my premium is going to be roughly half what it would have been otherwise.

Yay karma!
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aren't you like "forced" to get renters insurance as a stipulation when you rent? i know all my places required renters insurance.
 
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Lanx said:
aren't you like "forced" to get renters insurance as a stipulation when you rent? i know all my places required renters insurance.
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Renters insurance covers your shit in your apartment, not the apartment itself.
 
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I think it can cover temp housing if your unit gets fucked up. I can also see requiring it so you won't have to hear all kinds of bitching if they get robbed.
 
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Is Samsung that bad? We close on our house in 2 weeks and negotiated that all appliances stay, including less than 1 year old Samsung W/D. Free is free I guess, but don't want to worry about a premature major repair/replacement.
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I have a samsung activewash top loader. Lemme tell you how awesome this piece of shit is.

Lets say you're doing a load of towels or sheets or jeans or something and the washer ends up at the spin cycle unbalanced. It will add water to the drum in an attempt to balance the drum and start the spin cycle again.

Of course, when the water drains out, it's unbalanced again, and it attempts to add water to the drum in order to balance it.

I have literally started a load of clothes in the morning and come home from work to it still trying to figure out how to wash the fucking things.

And, I can't stress this enough...that shit is not even the reason it is recalled.
 
Lanx

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Renters insurance covers your shit in your apartment, not the apartment itself.
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well yea, since like you could give a fuck what happens to the apt, it ain't yours, but the places i rented all required it, it was like 10bucks a month anyway.
 
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Foreigners snap up record number of US homes
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Read a deal this morning that more people are renting houses now than any time in the past back to like 1960 or something. Kind of a scary figure and would align with this article - I have a buddy who just moved out to San Diego. Pretty well off, and he bought a 2 million dollar 1500 square foot house in Pacific Beach (1500 sq ft, lulz). He can afford it, he's a millionaire oil producer. What I don't get, and what I'm obviously ignorant about is what the fuck do his neighbors do. He makes more money than 99% of the people in the United States, and he's living in a small house in San Diego. There are plenty (PLENTY) of much, much nicer and more expensive homes even in his neighborhood. I don't believe for one second that ALL of those people have 7 figure incomes and ALL of them are wildly successful. Most are probably normal Joe-Blows. So what gives - anyone able to explain to a dullard like myself just what the fuck is going on? Is it mostly foreign investment? Screwy, Kang-nog ARM loans? How are all these people living in San Francisco, San Diego, NYC, etc - renting? Is home ownership on it's last legs?
 
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You're forgetting that 99% of the people in the US don't live in neighborhoods like his. I'm sure there are some people living beyond their means in his neighborhood but if he's in one of the smaller homes in his area he probably makes one of the smaller incomes.
 
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