When you start to do property rehabbing, you’ll realize that you’ll be shopping for appliances more often that you ever did for your own home.

So the question is where is the best place to shop for appliances when rehabbing homes? You can ask consumers who participated in the Consumer Reports National Research Center’s recent surveys.

One survey showed that not only rehabbers are searching for cheap appliances; even homeowners are. In fact this is the top reason that encourages them to choose what store they would buy from. So, ready for it? Abt Electronics, located in the Chicago area, stood out when it comes to prices of major appliances, along with several other independent local stores. When it comes to smaller appliances, it was Costco, Amazon.com, and local independent stores.

When rehabbing homes, knowledgeable salespeople also are a turn on for buyers. Salespersons in independent retailers, Abt Electronics, and Pacific Sales in California were top for major appliances while independent local retailers and Lowe’s were good in small appliances.

For property rehabbing, it’s important to have an array of choices. So, for selection and product quality of major appliances, Abt Electronics and Pacific Sales were again top. For small appliances, it was Amazon.com followed by local stores. Sears, Lowe’s, and Best Buy, meanwhile, gained above-average marks in this category.

But if it needs to be stressed, these are merely results of a survey. But if you are experiencing difficulties with your appliance store right now, you might want to consider the stores listed in the survey. After all, another trait of good rehabbers is being able to listen.

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