Help me figure out what washing machine to buy...

For that kind of money and time frame, I'd go down to the local used-appliance place and pick up something for no more than $200, probably closer to $100. No sense investing a bunch of money right now.

Now when you're ready to get yourself a nice, shiny new toy, I just ordered a Kenmore 4T front-loader that I'm crazy about. It's being delivered Thursday.

Roper is a pretty inexpensive brand made by... Whirlpool.

I just bought a new dryer for our rent house, it is an estate brand, made by whirlpool. I think the washer was 325 or 350? The dryer was the cheapest one I could find, $310 delivered and set up, tax and all. We went the used route first, but the used one we got only lasted about 2 monnths, so it was a waste of money I hope this one lasts for a long time without any problems! Since you don't plan to keep it, I would go w/ the cheapest, but still new or like new (maybe 3 years old). When I got a new washer/dryer for our house (ours went out right before DD#1 was born) I got KitchenAid brand, and I really like them. I went for the top loader, too.

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Sorry, haven't checked this thread until today...it's consumer search.

From the Wall Street Journal, Article by Andrea Petersen: ConsumerSearch pulls together product reviews from a bunch of different sources (mostly magazines and Web sites) to create a kind of uber-review. It also rates the individual product reviews - from one box (worthless) to five boxes (great). Feeling a bit sedentary, I checked out the reviews for home treadmills. The site's "Fast Answers" listed ConsumerSearch's top picks based on the reviews it analyzed - three treadmills costing from $650 to $3,200. The 'Full Story' section gives additional insights about the different reviewers' methodologies - ConsumerSearch says that review magazine Consumer Reports tested the treadmills with a machine ('... a mechanical doohickey that simulated a year's worth of use,' the site says), while Runner's World tested them with actual runners."

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