For me, with 4 of us living here we HAVE to have a dishwasher. For others, not so much. If the dishwasher is listed in the lease agreement (things that are included with house) then your rental co needs to fix it. We just went through that fiasco with mine. They tried to say the dishwasher was not covered and if it broke then we needed to replace it or fix it but they were not responsible. My issue with that... Dishwasher was listed as an ammenity with the house and it is in our lease. So I threatened to take $50 a month out of my rent for them not providing the ammenities listed with the house in the rental agreement. Fortunately, when i called hte guy out to get an estimate to send to them, it was a simple 5 minute fix and he only charged us the diagnostic fee ($65) and it was fixed. DH2B didn't push it to get reimbursed from the rental co, but I wanted to.