Over the past 6 months or so, the apartment complex that we are living in has gotten worse and worse. More than once we have had to call the police for noise disturbances late at night, fighting, gunshots close by, etc...
The sunday before Matt got home I was getting ready to go to sleep when I hear a couple of girls out on our porch that's shared by our neighbour. This isn't unusual as he is something of a party animal and often has loud people over with loud music playing (though he himself is lovely). As I was marking off my day on my caleder by the kitchen I hear a 'pop' from my porch and a smash outside my living room window. I then hear the girls acting like they were guilty before fleeing into my neighbour's apartment. That was enough for me, I went outside, saw that the back window of a truck car thing was laying in pieces on the floor and knocked firmly on my neighbours door. I demanded to know what was going on and after denying any knowlege of anything, my neighbour suggested some silly scenario that I knew was not true. I informed him of what I'd heard and that I was ringing the police before doing so. As I was on the phone, the girls I had heard fled the scene and drove away.
To cut the rest of the story short, the police came, my neighbour changed his story, mine stayed the same and the poor truck owner was found.
Needless to say, when I informed Matthew about it (after he had come home) he was not happy. He professed that we were moving (which we had already looked into doing) and went directly to the office. We found out that to move into one of the two bedroom townhouses here it would cost us $300... to break our lease completely and be able to move away from the complex it would cost us in the region of $1110 just to break the lease.
Shelly the manager, due to the circumstances, offered to waiver the transfer fee of $300 to move into a townhouse... We looked at the one on offer and though I was not impressed, I would have gone for it just because of the money it would cost otherwise and the added space it afforded compared to what we have now so that we could fit our baby in comfortably. Matt however refused to even consider it and politely told them that moving from one part of the complex to another would not solve the problem because we just don't feel safe here.
So we shopped around for another apartment complex and found a really nice one whose rent for a two bedroom apartment was only $12 more than the townhouses here, with a considerable increase in quality of apartment, space, storage, facilities, etc... We decided that the benefits outweighed the money aspect and we signed up for the apartment that was going to become available on the ground floor. Matt tried to go through the military to get orders so we could break the lease without fees, but there was no way that they could help.
The only options we had were dishonourable methods to break the contract or to pay the money. This caused me great stress for a good day or so and I prayed mightily to my Heavenly Father before giving the burdon to Him and accepting that whatever was to happen, would happen and that we would deal with it as best we were able.
Just days later when Matt went to the officce to talk to one of the staff members, Shelly, the manager informed him that she was not charging us the fees as our case had special circumstances in which the police were involved and a full investigation was under way. Can you believe it?! Shelly is a great manager for the company because she gets them money... she doesn't do things like this. That being said... she obviously does when moved upon by Heavenly Father through the spirit!
My prayers (and those of Matt) were answered so directly and immediately that I am still in a state of near-shock. Not that I didn't believe Heavenly Father was capable of miracles of such magnitude or import, but usually my miracles are small ones that come through less obvious means. This was such a big miracle to me that I just wasn't expecting...
Oh how my Heavely Father loves me and looks after my family!! It seems that as soon as I recieve one miracle, another one is already being put into play, just waiting for the oportunity to manifest itself!
So, on the 16th of September we shall be moving into our new apartment, without paying an extortionate amount of money! Hooray!!
