Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Virginia
Landlord and College
My college is trying to suspend me for violation of honor codes for living and renting a house not zoned by the school and for living in a place different from the place I had listed as my home. The school policy states that no student can be on a lease for home zoned R4 or R5 which the home was, however my name was not signed on a lease nor signed on any application, or bills. The only thing with my name on it is the top of the lease has names listed of possible renters and a letter from the landlord stating that I stayed over there, which i did some days. But staying over a house is not a violation of the honor code in anyway, the honor code states you cannot not reside or rent but gives not durration of time one can spend in a house zoned R4 or R5. The reason the landlord is trying to go through the school is because him and my friend who rented the home had a falling out and my friend was evicted and moved a good distance away without paying in form of rent. So i'm the only person that the landlord could connect to this house and since there was no legal actions he could take against me this was his only choice. Is the information provided by the landlord to my school legal and usable? Does the school have a reason to suspend?
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Re: Landlord and College
You ask "is the information provided by the landlord to my school legal and usable? Why wouldn't it be, particularly if it's merely a letter with a factual statement regarding your stay at this particular prohibited residence which your school
rules as off limits to its students?
As to your last question, better check with the school, (but I'd have to say that after all of your semantic contortions, so to speak, that they likely have ample reason to suspend you
for having violated the zoned R4 and R5
residency rules).
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