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On the upside, if the place is modified outside your control (weather, damage, wears out, trees, etc) you don't have to pay for it

Yeah, you just have to live with it because the landlord doesn't care :-).

If you have a landlord like that, move, which is another upside to not owning - it's very easy to move whenever you want.

You just gotta pay for breaking the lease, and go find another place, and get enough together for a deposit, etc.

Just wait till the lease is over - and paying a deposit is like tax returns - it all comes out in the wash, so it's not really an "expenditure".