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Originally Posted by Diseasel300
1 word: AVOID.
As you saw with AHS, they will send out the cheapest bidder they can get their hands on (which usually means you'll get a half-assed job). If you are buying a house, get a home warranty for a year or so, but beyond that, maintain your appliances yourself, or budget for replacements as they wear out. You get what you pay for.
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^ Agree 100%. One of the challenges with buying a new or even slightly used home is the builder-grade appliances. Builders source the absolute lowest cost appliances they can find. And the appliance manufacturers are all to happy to cater to this market. Even the big "reputable" name brands produce a line of cheapo bottom dollar models just for the builders to install in bulk.
Coming from wrenching on a Mercedes though, you'll find appliances are fantastically simple machines to work on. Whether it's your central A/C, dishwasher, wash machine, oven, whatever. And there are a number of good parts web sites that have exploded diagrams and every repair part imaginable. You'll also discover that the manufacturers frequently release updated or revised parts that solve known issues (kind of like a car, hmmm) so when that pesky defrost coil for the freezer's evaporator burns out, you might find that GE makes an upgraded dual-element coil.
Anyhow, I'm rambling now, but you get the idea. Home warranty repair folks are like the minimum wage Jiffie Lube teenager changing your oil - they're barely qualified for the job, and they have no pride in their work.