After I had owned it several months, they sent out a repair crew to reinforce the lid for the purposes of (I am not making this up) preventing it from exploding and spraying the laundry room with shrapnel. OK, fine, mistakes were made. But the reinforcement came with a new wash setting for use with heavy loads (bedsheets, etc.). Using that setting, or loading the washer past about 50 percent on any other setting, or sometimes just because, it seizes up and dumps its entire water load onto the laundry room floor. This happens just rarely enough that I've only now decided to go through the annoyance of replacing it.
Depends on your definition of "mid six figures" and your source, but it at least doesn't appear very misleading. At $450k it looks like the federal effective tax burden is 35% and the New York tax burden is at least ~16% (the data are not broken out by income).
After I had owned it several months, they sent out a repair crew to reinforce the lid for the purposes of (I am not making this up) preventing it from exploding and spraying the laundry room with shrapnel. OK, fine, mistakes were made. But the reinforcement came with a new wash setting for use with heavy loads (bedsheets, etc.). Using that setting, or loading the washer past about 50 percent on any other setting, or sometimes just because, it seizes up and dumps its entire water load onto the laundry room floor. This happens just rarely enough that I've only now decided to go through the annoyance of replacing it.