since last week, my car has been having trouble, it already had an oil leak when i got it but it wasnt super bad, its been going on for a year and im just now having the worst of the trouble with it.

So im also looking for apartments, and its like everything i have planned gets attacked. As i got my birth certificate for one of my applications, on the way back home my car battery died, a police officer offers to jump the car but that doesnt work so its the alternator. I have to leave my car parked at this church over night, hen get towed the next morning. I dont deal with mechanics alot so i always worried imma get cheated. But lucky me, my fiance (who knows nothing about cars) and my brother (who just sorta helped with observation) managed to put a new alternator in the car, it took a week, and had to get a new battery the very next day.
We took it for a short test drive, and everything was good and we are happy and dancing around, so we decide to get up early and take the applications in for the apartments (yesterday). So we are riding and i notice the car is moving weird, im thinking the cars gonna stall out on me, but as i pull over to a gas station, i noted we have a flat, at first glace we didnt see in puncture of tear but when my finance put air in the tire we noticed one. we tried fix a flat and some thick duck tape but nothing worked. so then the panic sets in because my tires are locked on and need a special "key" to get them off.
Now the key to do this was in the car the whole time and i didnt know that was what it was, it was just a weird metal piece to me. so im calling towing places asking people for rides because i think i have to buy one of these keys, not knowing i had it the whole time, my fiances dad even came and helped. after we figured out we had the key the whole time to put the spare tire on.
I had called 2 tow places both of which was busy and one of them was under police investigation, but they directed me to another guy, he came anf finished changing the tire for us, and offered to get us a new tire put on at his shop.

Things were looking up, until they feel down. I told the tow guy to head to the shop and we will meet him there, we had to put air in the spare tire but it was almost like new. so we ride and we get 5 minutes up the road before i notice the car is over heating, ITS NEVER DONE THAT BEFORE!! so i have to pull over again, call the tow guy back, and now get the tow. he takes us to his shop, and looks at our car and tells us the radiator is gonna have to be changed.... im in full panic because from 10 am to almost 5 pm i have been stranded 2 times, had a tire replaced and need actual work done on the car. the guy and his crew were very nice, but i had to make sure be getting this done was gonna be worth the money because ive been saving up for an apartment, so im calling my god dad and my brother because they know about cars, so i can get advice. my dad tells me to go ahead and pay for it, my brother wanted me to wait til he got there cause he was at work. I knew as soon as i told the guy to go get the piece and put it on my brother was gonna call. and thats EXACTLY what happened, and through all this other miscommunication and back and forth they ended up fixing the care and changing the radiator, by 9:30 pm. i hadnt eaten any real food until 10 pm, but the car works, and everything we had to get done, the tow, the tire, the service, the radiator, all cost me about 500 dollars, which is great for the round about way we had to get everything done. but now im almost flat broke, and will be doing commisssions until i make the money back up and may even do some raffles