I had the choice to rent a townhouse or rent a house for my last year of school.
I chose to rent a townhouse because my electricity, heating, cooling and water was all included with my room and board.
I didn’t want to have the responsibility of finding an electrical company or HVAC company and pay them each month. I would rather just pay one lump sum at the end of the year. Plus I won’t have to worry about paying late fees if I forget to pay my bills. The townhouse that I live in now with my roommates is great. We have a decent size kitchen and a living room. Our bathroom is pretty nice too. However we have been seeing these little balls of lint on our bathroom sink. It got worse as we let it continue. We decided to call the maintenance people to solve the issue. He inspected our vents and looked at the vent return and saw the lint and dust on it. He took off the return face, and opened it up. Inside was where the air filter was located. He took out the air filter and it was filled with dust and other particles. That was the main reason why we kept seeing dust and lint, our air filter needed to be changed. Who knew when the last time it was changed. He apologized and cleaned the rest of our vents by dusting them and wiping them down. If my roommates and I were renting a house we would have had to pay for an HVAC technician to fix our problem.