It sucks and the landlord should be a better person and go get a $100-200 used oven for a few weeks, but sound like they are penny pinchers.

Detroit used to be home to the richest middle class in America, those homes are now abandoned and empty--some very nice structures awaiting fix ups.Many of the homes have very pointy roofs, or little dog house looking rooms jutting out of the roof.Lots of brick some brick to the front only, lots of stolen aluminum siding, copper wires, HVAC equipment.Many areas are very dangerous.Be careful!

Last call was a leak in the yard where the pvc supply line met the copper.

By the intense title of your post I thought you were broken into several times with  copper and ac stolen while you were dodging bullets every night.  

At this point I had not given a penny so if it was trash I was ok.

A lot of the cost is in the pad and moreso the coating....

People have also don't the same with "penny stocks." 

If they have to mill it down because too many black coats done already then could be hundreds of thousands.

Each house will be making only pennies on the dollar."

The roof had a new silver coating applied about 3 years ago.