[ SECRET POST #4544 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4544 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

How dare we not be able to live for FREE in our friend's building FOREVER?

[(Anonymous)]

That's the one thing they're actually justified about considering they had an agreement. It'd be one thing if Benny were to say "hey this isn't working out, you need to either start paying rent or move out by [reasonable point in the future]" but what he actually says is "what agreement?" in an attempt to muscle his old pals into stopping an inconvenient... whatever the hell it is Maureen's doing.

He was stuck between pissing off his friends and pissing off his bosses, and I don't think coming down on the side of keeping a steady paycheck is the damning action the show thinks it does, but he did fuck over Mark and Roger in a specific way that it makes sense for them to be angry about, there.

[erinptah]

Yeah, this. He tries to bill them for a retroactive rent-hike! Hopefully illegal (since they don't have a written contract agreeing to pay the demanded amount, any more than they had one for the originally-agreed amount), but murky enough that they probably couldn't fight it without legal help, and they can't even afford to keep the heat on.

The real lesson of the story is, no matter how much you totally trust your friends to stick to an agreement, always get it in writing.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Serious question. Did you watch a different adaptation? I thought it was pretty clear in the original Broadway version that Benny wasn't exactly the good guy in the rent situation.