With much gratitude to Hashem, we purchased an apartment. A young couple with a large mortgage, and an apartment. In order to manage the payments, we decided to continue living in our rental unit and to rent out the apartment, which is, baruch Hashem, large and pleasant, and it could house a large family for a long time.
The apartment was rented out, and toward the end of the contract, we again advertised it for rent. A potential tenant arrived. He asked a lot, checked and investigated, found out about the price, and claimed it was too high for him. He succeeded in getting us to lower the price a bit, and then a bit more. He also demanded a perfect apartment, fixed up, painted and refurbished, with door hinges that were attractive and silent, and no sign of cracks or peeling anywhere. I promised he would receive this as well. One does not need to be so suspicious. “You aren’t my first tenant,” I reminded him. “If the first tenant was satisfied, you will be satisfied as well, be’ezras Hashem.” He was not completely calm, but he signed the contract and gave us the first check.
We started to work on refurbishing and fixing up the apartment. Several days later I got a call from him.
“I see at the end that it is not suitable for us,” he said, “I want to cancel the rental contract and get my check back.”
“What is that supposed to mean?!” I was shocked. “I knew I was going to rent it out to you, and I stopped advertising the apartment. This cancellation causes us a lot of damage!”
But the man said that talking about it would not help, because in any case he was not going to move in to our apartment, and the check we were holding simply had to be put back into the right hands.
I almost continued talking and telling him a few choice words that were on the tip of my tongue about what I thought about him, but with rachamim from Above I caught myself and said, “Okay. It’s all for the best. Kol tuv,” And I hung up the phone.
I worked on myself tremendously to think that everything is for the best, until I calmed down completely and we went back to advertising the apartment and waiting for the tenant who would finally show up.
For a month the apartment stood empty. It was a month during which we had to deal with paying both the mortgage and our rent without any rental money to fill in for the payments, and baruch Hashem for this.
Afterward, the current tenant showed up, and then we saw tangibly how everything is for the good. First of all, the talks between us were quick and smooth, pleasant and comfortable. He did not mention all sorts of small details or demand all sorts of things. He wanted to move in immediately and did not care that we did not even have the time to sweep the floor of the apartment.
He took upon himself to fix up the apartment without any involvement on our part. He did not argue
