Teacher's and Club Soda

From the last post, you all may have assumed that things were going swimmingly because I was letting things come and go as they pleased. I was at least partially wrong there. You kind of have to put up a little resistance when your landlord tries to put it in you on the price/amenities/everything. First off, our landlord is batshit bonkers. No, you say...Jake, be charitable...Jake, he's just an old codger. NO. He is nuts. He demanded that we pay all of the rent up front, without seeing the state of the place. We may have done this in a better situation, but he'd made us wait for 10 hours for him, while constantly delaying and ignoring the phone calls of the program directors. This would've been fine if he'd been working or fixing the apartment, but he'd been writing a hilarious contract which had no legal grounds. We basically turned down the deal at this point at the recommendation of the program heads, but then we came to some sort of consensus. We're there for 15 days and if it's good, we'll stay. If not, we're out of there in a week and a half's time. We have a whole list of grievances that needed to be addressed, which are starting to come together. We got drinking water, our cook is supposed to start tonight, we have a dhobi (washerman) and a cleaner which were organized for us, and he is apparently getting us a table, some chairs, a TV and a couple of coolers by today. He's been hemming and hawing a bit, but we're going to leverage this 15 days period for all it's worth. It's required a lot of teacher's and club soda to deal with, but hopefully it all works out.