Renting comes with blessings and curses. In one hand, you don’t need to worry about major appliances breaking, like air conditioners, stove / ovens, or the water heater. The flip side is that no matter how bad they are, as long as they work, which is a very subjective term, you have to make do with what you have.
A musician, and IT professional, master of the flat pack assembly and now a home renovator. A man of many skills, you could call him a renaissance man. But not in like the whole Renaissance fair type deal. Those things are just weird.