to buy based on energy efficiency and price, not brand. There is not near as many water heater makers as their is water heater "brands." The same factory can make a dozen brands. Same heater, different case. I suspect that in my career, I installed 500 water heaters and usually if they are going to leak in the first three years, they will leak in the first three weeks. Three years is a very short lifespan for any water heater, it must have had a factory defect or either you have some very rough water. I have repaired water heaters that were 30 years old, I recently replaced my 22 year old gas water heater with an electric, and there was nothing wrong with it other than I did not want to deal with propane any longer, the truth is, I don't recall what brand ether heater was/is.....
A water heater company once sent my wife and I on a free, all expense paid, luxury vacation, to Acapulco for a week, and I didn't even push their "Brand." I did, however, very much enjoy their trip! 
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