If you are going to place retaining a "good" tenant as a priority over the operation of your business you will be forever at the mercy of that tenant and have to compromise on your policies..

According the law enforcement, my Real estate agents email (unsecured Gmail account) had been compromised prior to our escrow.

I guess I have to compromise and lower my 7.5% cap rate to about 6.0%.  

Yes, I say do NOT contact a lawyer, you will forfeit any compromise from the board of directors. 

I told them they were only locked in for 5 years so do the loan at 4.5 like they originally quoted, and the quarter point was our compromise. 

We worked out a compromise in that we go them to sign a new one year lease with an increase at the 6 month mark of the lease. 

This was my personal compromise for Dave and Robert:Go through baby steps 1-3 as Dave says:Step 1: Save an emergency fund of $1,000Step 2: Pay off all debt but your mortgageStep 3: Save an emergency fund of 3-6 months.Step 1 scares me, that is, to only have $1,000 in the emergency fund, but Dave's steps do not really make math sense, they cause you to be motivated because you want to be out of debt as soon as possible so that you can build that emergency fund back up and get some sleep at night!

May be best to try to compromise on 45 days, or something you can both live with, if possible?

Best of luck on the search, don't get too anxious and compromise yourself into a bad deal though.

If it's not a footing/foundation issue, It could be 1 or 2  floor joists that have been compromised/have rot especially in the kitchen if water has been leaking through the floor and they may need to be replaced.