Continuing the Story

Soooo... the move. After seeing the rental sign we were interested, but didn't expect anything to really come of it since we had the two primary concerns: 24 hour security and someone to take care of paying the bills during our travels. Imagine our delight when we discovered that not only did the housing development have a guard gate with guards 24 hours per day, but the rental administrator gladly accepts the responsibility of paying the bills when the tenants travel! (I should probably make clear that in both cases we leave the money for those bills to be paid. It's just that here we have no viable mail service so bills and their payments are all hand delivered.)With that great information in mind we went to talk to the rental administrator. Normally a two or even three months worth of rent is required as a deposit and an automatic 10% increase is built into the rental contracts. We negotiated with Mr. Chan, who is from Hong Kong, and he agreed to accept only one month rent as deposit and assured us that he would not be increasing the rent each year. We made a pro/con list and the pro list was three times as long as the con list. We had prayed to see God's perfect will in the situationand we both felt a great leading to make the move. It all happened so quickly that within a few weeks we were moving! We are now happily ensconced in a two level house that will actually give us a guest room. Previously my office always had a bed in it, and became the guest room when we had guests. The poor guests had to share their room with my office. We have a much better situation now. One of the beauties of the whole thing is that our monthly expenses did not increase! We thought they would be about $75 higher, but the reality is that some expenses lowered so much that it brought us right back down to the same monthly living expense. Isn’t God good!