Okay, here's a brief status update:
We got ourselves a lawyer, and he's sueing the landlady (and her husband) for $3,500 (or maybe it's $35,000, I forget) for a whole bunch of things, including an injury my mom sustained when the kitchen sinks, dishwasher, and washing machine ALL went haywire at once and flooded the house, causing my mom to slip, fall, and tear her hamstring. But that's not even the half of it, like I said, a whole bunch of things like not fixing up the house before we moved in like they said they would, and us having to have the plumbing fixed ourselves (some of which hasn't been done yet) because she refused to have it fixed before we moved it for all kinds of crazy extra fees in addition to the rent, so there's your status update.