So anyway, the LL does have a lawyer though in dealing with him I think he's overpaying for what he's getting

The lawyer has listed some oddball company (clerical error I'm sure) as a joint defendant on every filing since the beginning, even after I pointed it out.
But yea, we met with him a few months ago and told him we were screwed and were wanting to work with him in whatever way we could. He said his partners have their system of dealing with this and he had to sue, fine...no problem and we did not contest his suit in any way. After the default judgment was ordered we were told (by our lawyer)it would be X number of days(14 I think) until he could toss our stuff to the curb. Well we only got 2-3 days into it before he booted us.