Bury it....or screen it, but the tank-filler guy has to be able to get to it easily.

The advantage to buying is that you can use any provider to refill it. We typically make a few calls when we need to refill it to get the lowest price. When you rent you have to use that company to fill.

One of our neighbors put a shed in front of their tank so they don't see it from the house. Unfortunately we see it from ours. Our tank is buried. Can't help with the size. We only use propane for cooking, clothes dryer and a fireplace.

I'm curious about this because where I am no one buries their tanks. We are out on the county so everyone is on at least 2 acres. In the towns/cities, even small ones, there is NG so propane isn't used.

Are you guys on smaller lots? Using propane even though NG is available?

No, we live on 33 acres. NG isn't available in our area for lots of reasons. Primarily it's because of geology (lots of limestone so not easy to run pipes), and we live outside of the main town. Even in town it's not a given that NG is available (again, the geology).

NG is not available where I live. Also in the country.

We have it buried. We bought ours. 500 gal for cooking, in and out, hot water, and fp.

Can't recommend size (Texas, only used for cooking, water heater, fp) but can recommend to buy the tank outright and not rent it. Renting makes you a slave to that company's fluctuating (and gouging) prices since you are not allowed to have it filled by anyone else. Not to mention, their laissez-faire filling practices. Ours would only come to the area if others had called, too, sometimes taking up to 2 weeks to fill. We got fed up with being ripped off and had the rental company drag off our tank so we could buy our own and pick who to fill. It's a cost upfront that pays for itself over time and sometimes you can get a good deal on a used one.

Ours was hidden by a 6ft privacy fence with rose bushes in front. Burying it was too costly.

We bought ours. 500 gallons. Used for cooking and tankless hot water heater. We buried ours

We bought ours. We wanted a 1,000 gal. tank but they didn't have one so we have two 500 gal. ones. Both buried. Live in NY. 2,700 sq.' home under construction. Used for heat, cooking and hot water (our AC and dryer are electric).

You could plant bushes or arborvitaes around it.

We also bought ours. 1,000 gallon tank, used for heat, cooking, and hot water in Maine. We wanted the easiest possible access to the tank for refilling, which meant by the driveway/road, so we opted for burying it as we didn’t want a giant ugly tank defacing the front of our property. Maybe your husband would reconsider after taking access into consideration?

After pulling a ~25yo fuel oil tank out of the ground and seeing its condition I wouldn't bury any tank. Ours (fuel oil and two separate propane tanks) will live in a leanto woodshed designed with the house. There are lots of ways to hide them or make them fit in the space.

There are quite a few ideas on Pinterest on how to disguise big propane tanks

We have a 1,000 gallon propane tank for furnace, cooktop, fireplace, hot water heater and emergency generator for about 3,000 sq foot house. We buried ours because its location is very visible from the house and back porch and needed to be in that location for access to the driveway and house. We made the choice not to buy the tank outright because then we would own the liability, maintenance and failure of the tank. Yes, we're locked into our supplier -- but they own the risk and replacement. We take advantage of their pre-buy specials and since our neighbor uses a different supplier we compare with their prices and will call our supplier if we feel we need to negotiate. In 4 years we haven't found a hugely significant difference in pricing. They only fill the tank to 85% to allow for gas expansion so you're not really getting 500 or 1,000 gallons when full - so something to keep in mind when thinking about size.

We are in Washington state. We own our 500 gallon tank. No one here buries their tank. We are rural and there is no NG lines only propane is available. House is 2500 sq. Ft. We primarily use electric heat pump for heating and cooling with a propane furnace for backup. Propane water heater, stove and two ovens are propane and two propane fireplaces. Also have a standby propane generator 17.5 KW. On average we fill up 3 times a year. Even though it’s a 500 gallon tank, it can only be filled to 80 percent capacity.

Place it with a view of the road and then rent it out as advertising space?

I don't maybe this guy was a pharmacist?

Definitely buy. Ours is marked 1949 and still going strong. Above ground.

I agree with those recommending you buy your tank. We rented ours because we didn’t want to deal with any maintenance issues, and during our last power outage we ran out of propane for our generator because our provider didn’t have enough drivers (freak storm during the summer). My neighbors own theirs and they had two deliveries before we got ours (and our price was significantly higher than theirs).

I saw a picture of someone’s above ground tank painted like a watermelon on Pinterest. Very creative.