Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Iowa

Re: evictions

yes

Re: evictions

If your lease is under the Virginia Residential Landlord Tenant Act (VRLTA), your landlord may serve you with a five day pay or quit notice one day after the rent is due. If you fail to remit within that five day period, the landlord is then free to terminate the lease and have you removed from the premises by filing an unlawful detainer action in the general district court.

If your lease is not under VRLTA but rather the

Commonwealth's statutory manifestations of the common law, whatever it says with respect to this issue (or a reasonable interpretation thereof) is what governs.

Either way the landlord appears free to terminate the lease and institute the unlawful detainer action against you within a very short period of time after the date on which your rent actually falls due unless, in the unusual circumstance, your common law lease includes terms which give you great flexibility as to exactly when you may remit your monthly rental payment.