My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Alabama
I will try to keep this short and present a timeline.
My wife rents a room from a spa to perform massage in as her own entity on a month to month basis. The spa owner rents the space from someone else.
Three weeks into the first month after my wife gets all of her collateral ( business cards, checks, brochures, advertising etc.) and doing almost $2k in massages. She is told it is not going to work out unless my wife dissolves her business and starts operating under the spa name. If she refuses she will have to be out by the end of the month (6 days).
The following day my wife only goes to the spa to perform 2 massages that she had booked. At close to the end of the day she gets a text from the owner saying she had to be out today. My wife told her that the lawyer we briefly saw said that we had at least 10 days. She texted back, agreed to the 10 days and said the letter stating this that my wife requested was in the mailbox. We went to get the letter and the locks were changed. My wife called her and she said that her landlord said she needed to change the locks because my wife wasn't on the lease.
My wife has a written letter saying that she is renting from her and canceled checks. There was no reason given, and it is forcing us to lease space for 6th months that is outside of her budget just so she can stay in business.
This feels extremely illegal to me. The unfortunate thing is that we do not have a large surplus of funds for legal representation. Do we have any recourse?
Thanks in advance for any help.

