Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Virginia

dus to mold growing and on going plumbing problems can I break my lease? it has been a week and he has done nothing to correct the mold. Also I been without a bathroom for 3 months and this is the same area were the mold is growing and moved into the storage room. He had 2 professional has came out and imform me and the landlord that it is mold yet and still he has done nothing. what am I suppose to do?


Asked on 11/06/10, 11:42 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

No bathroom for three months? Does that necessarily mean no operating toilets? And, if so, any "portapotties" in the yard that you might fall back on (if not into), so to speak?

If your answers to the first two questions are in the affirmative, I would

give written notice to the landlord that he must have all of these plumbing problems fixed with fully operational toilet(s) and at least undertaken some action to have the mold infestation abated by a date certain within this month of November or you will be paying next month 's rent into an escrow account that you will assert with the clerk's office of your local general district court where you will continue to remit your rental payments until all of these problems are satisfactorily fixed.

Then, go see the clerk at the GDC to set up your escrow account for your rental payments if there is no adequate response to your demand from

the landlord.

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Answered on 11/12/10, 7:03 am


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