Being Reasonable but not allowing myself to be bullied or ignored part 4.

Roughly 15 minutes after my call with the manager, she called again. I could immediately tell from her tone it was not nearly as conciliatory. She was unaware that I had only paid 7 days of rent and was quite annoyed by it. I explained the basis and that I had full intention of paying all of the rent once we had spoken and had a resolution not only on my request but our future in the building. She made comments about how I just didn't seem happy in the building and they really wanted happy tenants. Is that a requirement? Is it in the lease and I missed it? Is it discriminatory to not allow unhappy tenants? How does one quantify happy tenants?

The manager told me the "ownership" was now aware and this wasn't going to help me. I was going to really have to plea my case. Then, she said my rent would go up, which I immediately protested and said there was no market justification for it (in fact, really the rent could arguably go down given everything I have seen recently).

As if the call wasn't getting bad enough, the evil attorney suddenly suddenly jumped on the line. He reiterated to me how I was personalizing things then telling me about the ownership "feels" about tenants being happy (there it is again), their not putting up with other things (I was half listening at this point) and then he gave me an ultimatum which included only month to month continuation and a rent increase "if" they could persuade the owners (again once their emotions are in check) and I said I guess we are then moving.

So, that is what we are working on now...