Longest title ever, sorry. This story seems surreal to me, and I didn't know how to title it. In order to set up the events that occurred this last week, I'll need to jump back to when my family moved into our current apartment.
We first moved into this complex for 2 reasons. 1st: We needed a place to live, 2nd: we wanted to help a friend from our church out. She wanted to live on the 3rd floor apartment, we wanted a bottom floor apartment, which is where she was currently living. She was told by the apartment manager that there were no transfers. When we came to look at the apartments and he showed us the 3rd floor, I had asked if we could possibly rent the bottom floor, and our friend could have the top. He agreed, and we signed a year lease. We were happy, our friend was ecstatic, things were good.
I run an in home daycare. I watch a total of 3 children at a time. I can legally watch 3 children without having my home licensed, and anymore than 3 is overwhelming for me. I let the apartment manager know that the reason I wanted a bottom floor apartment is because I watch children. I had asked where friends or parents should park when they come over, and I was told the spots marked "permit" were unassigned.
After our lease was signed, I turned in our evaluation of the apartment, our inspection. I made sure to mark every little thing, as we paid a hefty deposit, and I did not want to be responsible for anything that was already this way. The manager was not happy with my evaluation, was very condescending, and talked very rudely to me, hinting that he wanted to give me a new sheet to have me do it over again. It stayed as it was, and I told my husband that I didn't want to have to deal with the manager anymore, if there was something that needed to be discussed, I would prefer he did it.
Fast forward to last week, (after a few more incidents of rude encounters), a parent was dropping off their child to my home. The parent parked in a spot marked "permit" and the manager of our apartments, who none of my friends had ever met, came and started yelling at him, saying he was allowed to park there and that he was going to get towed. He was rudely told to ask the tenant who he was visiting where he was supposed to park. Parent asked me, I said, "any spot marked permit", which he said was where he had parked. He called the Apt. Manager and left him a voicemail stating that although his job may be a stressful one, there was no reason to be rude. It was very unprofessional.
A couple hours later, manager came to my apartment and knocked (banged) loudly and repeatedly until I answered the door. He told me that I needed to come to his office to work out this parking situation. I asked if I could bring the 2 girls I was watching into his office. He said "are you running a daycare center here?" I said I wouldn't call it a "center", I was watching 2 kids. He then questioned whether or not I was qualified to be doing that. He said he needed to show me the paper work I signed regarding the parking policy. I said I had it, and I would work out something with the parents dropping their children off. He then informed me he wasn't here to cater to my business, and that my friend was trying to get him fired, when he should have been thanking him, he had saved him 300 dollars. I did look at our parking policy, which stated no one could park here unless they had a permit in their window.
My husband, Richard, came home, and I had filled him in on all that had transpired during the day. He decided he'd go and talk to the manager and clarify further if there was anywhere for people to park, and to tell the manager he didn't think it was right the way he was talking to me, and his friend, and he had requested that I come to his office to talk about it, so Richard was going to go instead. He got to the office (during office hours), and the manager let him in, was on the phone, and said "I'll have to call you back, mom, I have to take care of some business". He then told my husband "thanks a lot for interrupting my phone call, I just found out my aunt died." He said this with an angry tone. My husband then stated he was sorry, but he needed to discuss what had happened this week. For those who know my husband, he is an even keeled, peaceable, gentle person. He is very reasonable, and likes to talk things out and he's a helper to everyone, and always wants the best for people. He told the manager he didn't appreciate the way he had talked to his friend, and to me. The manager then yelled at him to get out of his office, and Richard stood up and told him, firmly, but not angry, that he wasn't leaving until they discussed this. The manager said "I'll call the police then!" and Richard said "go ahead". So he did. The police showed up, got both sides of the story of what was going on, and said there wasn't really anything for them to do there, so they left. Richard came home, and relayed the story to me. Shortly after the police left, a 60 day termination notice was put on our door. We were moving (which we would have done termination notice or no at this point).
Immediately, I was on Craigslist, For Rent website, and Apartment Living to see what was available. There were a few places I put an email in to take a look at. One was a duplex that was about 100 dollars more a month then where we are now, or an apartment that was about 10 dollars more a month, but 15 dollars more a month less than another lease here would be. Both seemed like temporary solutions, and we knew we'd have to explain to the landlords about the manager here, and nothing seemed ideal.
Thursday, the day after this happened, I sent a message to the daycare parents that, for the time being, it would be best to meet somewhere close to pick up their kids. One parent said he was going to look into his mother in laws property, to see if she had something that might work for us. His wife called a couple hours later, and set up to take us all to a place after work to show. A 3 bedroom duplex, garage, and fenced backyard, all for the same price as the place we were at now. I was randomly crying during the day, overwhelmed by this blessing.
We looked at the place, and fell in love with it! It's going to be perfect for us, and the owners are such a blessing! We didn't even have time to stress out about where we were gonna go, God placed these beautiful friends in our lives, and they have been such a blessing! Beyond anything we could have imagined! This new place is in a neighborhood and next to a school, and within walking distance of our church!
We will be out of here by June 30th, which is when we need to be. We are so thankful for this awesome blessing!
So this is our 24 hour adventure, that started out pretty rough, and ended up having a dream place :-)
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