Your only concern is whether or not the aparment complex will allow you to install the dish. I don't know where the laws currently reside on that subject, as I've had my own home since DirecTV has been available. But once upon a time, your apartment manager had every right to disallow you from mounting the dishes on the apartment building, and I don't see why that would have changed in recent years.

Hmm. If it turns out that the correct angle to mount it is outside on my patio, I was thinking of just stashing it in between some shrubs and such. I didn't ask them yet and there's nothing in anything I signed that states "no dish", so they really can't make me follow anything I didn't sign. I wouldn't be bolting it into the stucco or anything.

Lots of things to think about here. I'm *kinda* leaning towards cable just because I can split it off to my hearts content and get all the analog channels on my PC's TV card, additional TV's, etc.