The lawyers who work for some developers are experts at terrifying people. bad developers are often real monsters. I don't know if that applies in this situation but having met many (other) would be developers and heard them laugh about what they do, and how they wont give people a moment of rest, I could easily imagine why she might have good reasons to be nervous.
Under that scenario, it could be a really really stressful situation for her.
I have met many of these would be princelings and princesses socially.
People have to understand, in the US, there is NO 'right to counsel' in civil cases, and winners often get to sue the losers 'for their legal costs' as well.
By not spending the hundreds of dollars an hour for a lawyer, somebody in a civil case where the law is stacked in favor of building owners, (giving them the benefit of the doubt in cases where they are "trying to improve their property") is certain to make some procedural mistake which loses their case.
The paralysis poor people exhibit when faced with this existential threat is for a good reason, they are statistically very likely to lose, even if they are still naive and unaware of the typical non-existence of any comprehensive system that in other countries always exists to protect them, something that often they don't grasp for some time, going around to various agencies and looking for help that is not there. This hunt for help and frustration wastes precious time and the inaction as the system sees it, plus the fatigue courthouse workers often overwhelmed cant help but feel at the endless stream of self-represented poor people who don't understand how the courts work, stacks the cards against them.
Fighting back for ones rights such as they may be, is only a rich persons game and rich people know that.
If they are that kind of developer, whatever she does now, they might try to work it into some attack on her.
Here, rich people, the ones with the lawyers, are always 'right'.
The statistics show that its a housing bloodbath out there right now for poor people, with evictions higher now than they have ever been before.
In this atmosphere, the sheer numbers of people who need help long ago began to cause a breakdown in all the structures that are supposed to protect them, and attorneys focus on 'triage' for the most unambiguous easiest cases, and try mostly to exact concessions from developers like more time for the soon-to-be dispossessed.
The kinds of services available illustrates how poor peoples lives are being destroyed, families broken up, in a systematic manner.
Compared to many others, Fran is actually a person whom one can see might actually be in physical danger outside of a city.
Its likely a visceral burden she's carried for a long time.
I doubt if she is in so much of a fighting mood - because of all her stuff that she feels is a part of her identity as a YouTuber.
But the stuff, and the urgent need she has for help getting a decent buyout, may be making it harder in terms of her ability to fight for what should be her right to compensation.
There will be more stuff in her future if she finds another place. Tons more old hardware is likely to become available as space becomes harder and harder to find. People will be giving it away.
She needs to put that stuff out of her mind and find a place to live. And be flexible as far as her next home, maybe it will just be a slightly larger apartment than the one she might get otherwise.
It seems to me to be almost impossible for a stressed person facing eviction, a non-attorney - to successfully make arguments for a settlement on behalf of themselves.
Slumlord and developer lawyers are very very slick and they have hundreds of ways they force people out of their homes and into the streets. Nomatter how smart or street-savvy a person may be, they are very very unlikely to win without a lawyer.
Its only when somebody is represented by counsel in the US that they are likely to get justice and almost no actual urban poor people are eligible for free help either.
People who have any kind of income are falling through the cracks in large numbers.
Once you have any income at all you are deemed capable of playing the game. Which is just a ludicrous proposition given its costs.