Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Virginia

We currently live in a rented home and apparently, according to the owner, the house is about to foreclosed so they are trying to sell the house ASAP. We didn't know about that until after we had signed a contract and moved in. Today, the real estate agent representing him opened the door to our front door with a key given to her by him, and attempted to enter the property with potential buyers and property appraisers without talking to us, setting up a time and definitely without our permission/knowledge. Thankfully a family member was home at the time and refused entry. What can we do about this? And about the property foreclosure? It'd be great if we could just purchase the house ourselves but the owner doesn't want to sell it to us.


Asked on 2/16/12, 5:32 pm

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

You should have the right under your lease to prevent the kind of unannounced

entry into your home as described in behalf of the owner's attempt to effectuate a short sale or other disposition of the property to forestall its foreclosure.

Nevertheless, the new owner after the foreclosure is likely to be a bank or other financial institution which in fact might be quite interested in selling this property to you.

So, give it or them a call if you're still interested and the property is finally foreclosed.

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Answered on 2/18/12, 5:18 pm


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