gas leak

To pick up where I left off, we now have a new water heater. It was such a great feelings as I walked into my apartment and saw the new shiny heater. I literally gave it a high five because I was so excited to not have the old leaky one. So later that day, thinking that everything was finally fine, I was hanging out in the living room with a few people. Suddenly, out of nowhere, the gas smell hit me. It was just like I had walked back into a nightmare, okay maybe that is a bit exaggerated but it really was depressing. It just came and went quickly and no one else in the room had smelt it so I just thought nothing of it. It then happened again but no one smelt it so I thought I was just being obsessive, after all our water heater was gone so therefore the problem was gone. Boy was I wrong. Later that day my roommate and a friend of ours were hanging out in the living room and the smell suddenly came back again. This time, both of them smelt it. Worried and annoyed, they called a maintenance man to only have him say that he couldn't smell it or find the source so there was nothing he could do. After he left, they became determined to find the source so they searched the room. Oddly enough, it was found to be coming from our electric outlet. This was really strange to them so they asked our upstairs neighbors to only find the same conclusion. It was coming from the outlet. Now this is really wierd and, as Mary from headquarters rudely explained to me over the phone, not a normal place for a natural gas leak. She also informed me that a gas leak smells like rotten eggs, not propane. Little did she know. So my roommate and I both called the company, not maintenance because they appear to be absolutely clueless, and they sent a guy over, this was a little after midnight. Thankfully, he believed us, and despite the fact that his device couldn't pick up any traces he could smell it coming from the outlet too. He also checked with the apartment above us to find out that it had gone to the second floor but not the third. It was such a nice moment to realize that we weren't just going crazy. He also found the source of the problem was this big device for our complex's heating system right on the other side of our wall where the outlet is. He immediately turned this off, meaning no hot water or heater, and informed maintenance to come fix it quickly. Fifty minutes later two maintenance workers came by as well as two owners of the apartment complex. It sure was a party in our apartment at 1:30ish in the morning. The women owner even was trying to suck up to us, which, had I been more awake, would not have ended well. However, they decided that they would tear down our wall in order to get to the pipes to work on. Now this wasn't the most comforting thought but at least they would be fixing it, and with that they left and we went to bed. As I left my apartment the next morning there was a little sign on all of the doors informing everyone on the issue and that it would be finished within the day. However, when I came home after being at work, school, studying, and other COLLEGE LIFE activities, there was a new sign telling everyone that it would be a few days till the problem would be fixed. Apparently it was an underground leak and they weren't able to get to it from the wall, but since they turned off the source it shouldn't be leaking anymore. This, of course, was not comforting at all and it only helped with my annoyance as I opened my apartment's door to see the random chunks missing from the wall. Since they weren't able to find the source they had tried a few places, leaving about a foot long gashes everywhere. This has very drastically taken up our living room space as well as made our apartment freezing because they gave us a broken space heater and we can now see that there is absolutely no insulation in our walls. Well there's that. Hopefully I will bring good news soon.