Anybody know anything about plumbing?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

One of the few perks from renting is not doing any of the trickier home repairs. Have you learned your lesson, then?

Since buying our own place we've jumped at the chances to do stuff ourselves...often with not-so-great results. These days I'm much more likely to pay someone who knows what they're doing.

Hope your landlord does well by you.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

One of the few perks from renting

Yeah, but it is the biggest, coolest perk of them all. When a tornado plows through our complex destroying everything I can shrug and say "oh well, it was time to move anyway" and immediately get on with life. If the ice maker in the fridge springs a leak and I don't feel like digging the tools out of the closet I can just email a work request to management and it'll probably be fixed by the time I get home from work the next day. If really loud neighbors move in and it becomse unbearable I can say "**** it, we'll just move."

Far outweighs any theoretical benefit of home ownership.