My sister let it slip that either my family is going to get me an oven for Christmas or get my current one fixed. She has a habit of lying so I'm not sure whether I believe her or not, but anyway. The reason for the oven is because my current one doesn't work. When we first tried to use it last November, it filled the house with the smell of gas (heated up the oven though) and set off the alarm. We saw a gas line sitting next to the oven and figured something wasn't hooked up right. The guys came to do the gas lines anyway so we figured they'd see it and they'd fix it. After they left we didn't see the exposed gas line anymore and figured the oven was fixed, but never used it anyway since we had gone so long without it. Well summer rolled around and we had to bake a birthday cake for our friend, so we turned on the oven and it started to heat up but filled the house with smoke and set off the alarms. We turned it off and haven't used it since. Then we tried making pancakes on the stove one morning and even though it was sitting on one of the lowest settings it was burning the pancakes within seconds and leaving the insides still doughy. Then the pan began to pop on the stove, as if the burner was too hot, even though it was sitting on 2. I talked to a co-worker and she said it sounds like the stove doesn't know what setting I'm turning it to. We can still make pasta and rice since those require higher settings anyway, but all in all, our oven and stove sucks.

I was told that in an apartment, you can replace any appliance as long as you keep the original and reinstall it before you leave. Is this true? And where do you keep the original. While I want a new oven, I don't exactly want the old one sitting in my living room and I don't think I can fit it in the downstairs storage area. Even if my sister is lying, I will hopefully get one for myself this year since I just can't stand the one we have now (I am wanting to bake soooo bad this year. I'm really getting the itch to make cookies and pies). Just wondering how I should go about this without making the landlords unhappy.