Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Virginia

Re: Bait and Switch?

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RESPONSE: It depends on what the lease says. If you signed a lease that obligates you to stay for a particular length of time, then you'll likely need to honor that obligation even if you were told verbally, prior to your signing the lease, that you could leave at any time. If, on the other hand, the landlord misrepresented material facts in order to induce you to enter into the lease, you may have grounds for rescinding the lease.