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I was wondering what where the best and cheapest apartment size stoves. I always thought apartment ranges were cheap, but perhaps not, because of being a specialty item.

I remember the old house next door had a Tappan 20" electric from the 50s I would guess. It was a greasy mess and got thrown out and I kept the knobs and pilot lights off it. LOL It was pretty well-equipped oven window, light and convenience outlet.

I also once stayed at a beach efficiency that had an electric Dixie 20" that had the controls on the backsplash and a grounded outlet as well. Thought that was pretty fancy for an apartment range.

The cheapest apartment I ever heard of on here was a Sunray electric with the broiler in the drawer below and only one element for the oven. A while back someone posted a coppertone brown 20" on here that appeared to have only 6" burners on top. I didn't see a brand on it though. Could that be the same range as the broiler in the bottom Sunray?

Also, did Sunray make Kenmore apt size stoves?
 
Here in NYC

Estate seems to be the most common brand name for "landlord" specials. *LOL*

In both "18" and full size there are choices for apartment ranges running from el cheapo to very expensive. Most property owners here get their things from Lowes of Home Depot unless they are spending big bucks, say outfitting an entire new building worth of kitchens. Then they may buy something in bulk to take advantage of pricing.
 
My house we bought 3 years ago came with Kenmore SS Apliances. I bet Sears has a builder grade or bulk discount deal for contractors too.
Everything is BOL or MIL but at least I didn't have to hunt up all the kitchen stuff when we moved in.
My rental before was built in 81 and had BOL Whirlpool stuff in it.
I fixed everything as it broke and all the original to the house stuff still worked with some replaced parts as needed.
We moved there in August of 89 so everything wasn't too ancient yet.
The new house at least everything appears to match even if every price was made by somebody else.
Dishwasher is Whirlpool built, stove is Westinghouse I think, and the range hood is one of those generic SS ones that vents back into the kitchen.
The stove is actually pretty nice, has a window in the oven compartment with a light and the timer and thermostat setting works really well, much better all around then our old one.
The dishwasher is very similar to the ones Whirlpool sold from the late 70s onwards with some updates, loud, cleans well enough.
They had to completely rehab this place to be able to sell it so at least I still got a good price and don't have to fix or replace anything critical for a long time.
 

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