The house was located in Dadar on the Main Road, almost directly opposite Manzil-e-Meem. Naoroji Dadachanji and his family had resided in the rear of the main building prior to moving to their new home in Boman Lodge. All the tenants of Banu Mansion were either Parsis or Iranis. It was well known that Shireenmai was Meher Baba's mother, and the other residents, being vehemently opposed to Baba, harassed her terribly, believing her son Merwan was committing heresy against the Zoroastrian religion by telling people he was a Master.
During this period, Daulatmai's brother, Colonel Irani, continued to publish defamatory articles in the Gujarati newspapers about Baba, misleading the Irani and Parsi community of Bombay with his baseless allegations. But there was also a group of Parsis and Iranis in Bombay — namely the Dadachanji, Katrak, Kotwal, Desai, Merchant, Baria and Pleader families — who were staunch followers of Baba. No amount of propaganda could sway them. These families tolerated insults and mocking taunts from their own communities and became ostracized by them. It was their rock-like faith in Meher Baba that made them hold to him. Thus, by facing such opposition, their love was tested.
Memo was the main target of these antagonistic Zoroastrians, and she was troubled the most. While she was residing in Banu Mansion, all her neighbors, except for a bachelor, approached the landlord and threatened to vacate the building if he failed to evict Shireenmai. They even signed a petition to this effect.
In those days, before there was such overpopulation, housing was readily available in Bombay and the landlord became worried by their threat. He approached Memo and told her that it was best if she left. Memo protested, "Why? I pay the rent regularly. I harass and hurt no one. Why should I leave?" The landlord did not have an answer to this and accepted that she was staying. Even though the tenants kept up their campaign to evict her, Memo was fearless and stuck to her resolve not to move.
Through Baba's watchful nazar, matters worked themselves out in a wonderful manner. The man who was harassing Memo the most was transferred and subsequently left Bombay. In another tenant's family there was a death, and this tenant, too, had to leave to stay with the dead relative's family. Another lost his job. All the other tenants, except for the bachelor who had not taken part in deliberately causing trouble for Memo, for one reason or another moved out of the building within a month, and the Avatar's mother was left in peace.