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Virginia Tenant Screening Services for Landlords
Look at the Virginia tenant screening reports and court research offered by https://www.amerusa.com to the landlord, property manager, and real estate agent.
Free Legal Aid provides useful information about eviction. In addition to the video here, be sure you check out other resources.
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If the court finds you do owe rent, you can be evicted. However, you may be able to prevent eviction by paying all amounts owed, or by offering to pay all amounts owed, if there are no other reasons stated for eviction. check to learn more.
The first step in the Virginia eviction process is serving the tenant with a written eviction notice. If the landlord is evicting the tenant for non-payment of rent (most common reason), then the landlord must serve the tenant with a 5 Day Notice to Pay or Quit, also called a “Pay or Quit.” check to learn more.
Tenant Defenses to Evictions in Virginia
The Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act and the Landlord and Tenant chapter of the Code of Virginiaregulate the relations between a landlord and tenant and provide the correct procedures a landlord must follow when trying to evict a tenant. check to learn more.