Built in fridge: GE monogram;
Dish washer: anything that is quiet (below 42 dB);
Dryer: anything with turn-timers; and,
HVAC: American Standard.
As the Farmer's Insurance jingle goes, "They know a thing, because they've seen a thing."
Every service tech I've ever asked has immediately had a "Never buy {popular brand}, because they all {have shoddy part | catastrophic design error}."
And it's night and day between what service techs all know vs what even the most detailed internet sleuthing would give you, because they actually see a representative sample size.
My repair guy would bring other techs over to my house to see our Staber washing machine. Nothing else comes close.
It's a cage-like drum that rotates on horizontal axis, much like any front-loader. But it's a top loader; the cage has a door that you open to load or unload. The drum is supported like a wheel, both front and back of the washer.
A neighbor told us that this style is seen in Germany, but I'd never seen a setup like this. It's very simple and quite durable.
I don't have any connection to Staber. Just after ten years of in home daycare, 200 miles from anything resembling a city, I was quite thrilled to finally be able to check off the clothes washer as a problem solved.