Most of the close circle of people I associate with are of the DIY types. We're the ones that are amazed that someone didn't have the ability to do some (to us) simple repair/project.
This is one of the things my landlord likes about having me as a tenant. He stopped by a couple days ago to check on a fallen tree on the vacant lot next door, (Black walnut. I lost my chainsaw in the divorce, or the logs would already be curing in the shop.) and I was priming the stairs with some leftover Kilz from some other project at a previous house. (Already had the roller out to paint the wall behind the stove, and I don't even try to clean roller covers after using them with oil-based paint.) They've needed it for years, but the college kids he's had living here weren't the DIY types...to the extent that they peed in the bathtub for two days until he could get there to fix the broken clip on the toilet's flush chain. Bonus for me; now that they're white instead of half bare weathered wood and half battleship gray, I can see them in the moonlight when I forget to leave the porch light on.
I've already planned out replacing the copper-tubing-and-chain shower curtain frame with conduit on standoffs, and making a pot rack for the kitchen the same way, and will probably replace the decking on the porch by the end of the year. He offered to discount the rent for materials, but I'm planning to deck with pallet scraps from work, (We get a lot topped with 3/4" marine plywood that the edges get trashed on, so it ends up being a 4x6' sheet with a couple of nail holes in it. Not a standard size, but it's free and the boss doesn't have to deal with so much bulky stuff headed to the burn pile.) and conduit is so cheap it's not worth keeping receipts for two sticks. He'll probably drop some reasonable, round number off the rent at Christmas and/or start dropping off any extra supplies he has from working on his 6-7 other rent houses. Either way, he won't raise the rent on me for repairs and improvements I do, (been there, resisted the urge to drop a match on my way out) and it's already only $300/mo.