appliances for rental property

[rustyjack]

hi all,

First time poster from ireland here!
i have read the very useful buying guides and posts… thank you to everyone who wrote them. I found them very useful.

We have a requirement for a rental property
1) washer/dryer
2)undercounter fridge with 4* freezer/icebox
3)Free standing single oven cooker

For rental property, our requirement would be reliability and price. Having searched for a while, these are the appliances i came up with:
1) Zanussi zkg7125 (cost 470euros)
2) Lec R5010W (cost 160 euros)
3) Nordmende CSE60WH (cost 240euros) – 3 year warranty

Would anyone be able to recommend better quality, more reliable appliances in and around the same price. Of course, would be willing to pay a little bit more if the appliance will last a lot longer.

many thanks,
rusty

[keepitsimple]

Re: appliances for rental property

Hi – sorry upfront that this isn’t product specific advice, but be aware that many (most ?) warranties are limited to domestic use, and if the retailer/manufacturer knows this is a rental property, that will be classed as commercial, so a long warranty might turn out to be useless (*). I know a lot of landlords tend to get cheap but short life expectancy stuff for exactly that reason and tenants not always caring for stuff as well as they might.
(*) terms and conditions may be different in Ireland.

[rustyjack]

Re: appliances for rental property

keepitsimple wrote:Hi – sorry upfront that this isn’t product specific advice, but be aware that many (most ?) warranties are limited to domestic use, and if the retailer/manufacturer knows this is a rental property, that will be classed as commercial, so a long warranty might turn out to be useless (*). I know a lot of landlords tend to get cheap but short life expectancy stuff for exactly that reason and tenants not always caring for stuff as well as they might.
(*) terms and conditions may be different in Ireland.

thanks a lot for this reply. I did not know this!!!
Rusty

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