Currently I do not own my own home, but that my change this summer, but in the meantime I am renting. I don’t really mind renting; there are plenty of perks, when my disposal breaks I just call my landlord and let him deal with a gross backed up drain.
I also get to live in an awesome location that I could not afford to buy in. Renting of course has its disadvantages, rentals often have a multitude of problems, and you’re not building any equity. I really like my rental, especially the neighborhood, but it does have one above mentioned drawback.
HEATING BILLS SUCK!
For the month about Nov 15- Dec 15 it was close to $400 bucks! Now this was an estimated bill (those jerks at the gas company can’t come out and measure every month!) but it still hurts. In the meantime I have:
Installed storm windows
Put in an programmable thermostat
Hung plastic over all the windows
Weather stripped anything and everything I can find.
So we will see more next month, more to come, and until then……
You are getting some DIY practice!