I've had this for several weeks and it has been great. I manually empty out the water bucket, but it is easy to remove and carry it. After about a week it started shutting itself off for short periods as it got the humidity level under control in our apartment. Removing and cleaning the filter is easy, although the directions aren't the greatest on removing the filter. It required seperating it from the removable cover which is not mentioned, but it is flexible and comes off fairly easy. It was still very clean when the filter warning light came on. The wheels are great because we move it between rooms daily.