Magnetic board sounds like magic. Our notebook's got coffee stains and missing pages. Chuck key aside, I'd trade it all for a pegboard and some magnets.

That soap trick gets passed around way too much. Read a thread last month where a guy used it and ended up with the belt chunking off on the interstate, so you're not alone in this mess.

$180 beats whatever the landlord was gonna charge you. If it's been working solid for two weeks, that's already longer than most tankless repairs hold up. Keep it and let them eat the cost on the old one.