Have you looked into terriers? The majority of them have minimal shedding (landlord should like that part!). It is true, terriers have a bad reputation for beign excessively noisy, and though I am not saying this is entirely false, if the dog is not trained/socialized properly it will become a nuisance. With my Miniature Schnauzer, he 'woofs' (we all know how 'bark's differ from 'woofs' don't we?

) when someone is at the door, and other then this, he doesn't utter a peep.
Regarding activity, he has his daily run abouts in the morning, afternoon and evening, and he usually gets two 30 min. walk every day. The rest of the day, he is content to lay on my lap (such as right now) or lay on the ground chewing away at a nylabone.
Did I mention they are awfully handsome?
Since this is a photography forum, I should mention this was taken with a little P&S and I never took the time to remove the colour cast. Whoops.