Apartment Update
So, here’s some news on our living situation.
People from our respective faith communities have really stepped up to help us. On the night that our apartment started leaking, the first counselor in Paul’s bishopric immediately opened his home to us and we stayed with him for three nights. The counselor and his family were really wonderful about helping us pack up our old apartment and helping me run some errands for sorting out this mess. We also had 10-12 people from Paul’s ward show up on Saturday evening with no prior notice to help us pack up our belongings and move them to storage, including both counselors in the bishopric, the elders quorum president, and the sister missionaries who live right behind us.
My church has been really wonderful as well. My pastor mentioned our plight in her sermon on Sunday and two families approached us after church with offers to stay with them. Right now we’re staying at the home of one of our leadership team members, as guests and as off-and-on house sitters while they travel. We’ll probably stay with them until July 11 and then make a switch to the other family.
Trinity has also offered to let us stay in the residence halls for a good price with a flexible, pro-rated contract to meet our needs, as they have very few single students living on campus during the summer.
What it’s all come down to is that we have two options:
Option 1 – We stay in temporary housing (guests of friends from church, Trinity dorms, etc.) for 30-60 days until our apartment is repaired, then move back in and renew our lease as originally planned. Harley was in a really wonderful special education pre-school program, so I’d like to keep her in it if possible.
Option 2 – Our lease was set to end on 8/31/2010, 74 days after the accident happened. We had planned to renew it, but obviously being evicted by mother nature so close to the end of the lease complicates that. We’ve applied for TEDS on-campus housing. There are four two-bedroom apartments becoming available; we’re fifth on the waiting list. If one family ahead of us turns down an offer, we’ll be offered an apartment. Living on campus would be extremely convenient for us since I work there and go to school there, so we’d like to take this option if it comes.
I called my landlord today to let her know that these are our options. I told her that I understand that this is a stressful time for them and we’d like to be sensitive to their needs as well as our own. She said she’d discuss it with her husband and get back to us.
I feel pretty good about it all, and I feel good that we’re giving our stressed-out landlords the opportunity to have some say in our decision. Thanks everyone for keeping us in prayer.
In the meantime, Harley has a four-bedroom fully furnished house to play in, and a guest bedroom all to herself, and she loves it.
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