Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Virginia

Is the roommate/landlord stuck to pay the rent?

I own a condo & I let a friend, rent the spare room. We had a contract though it was never signed, but discused it via e-mail. I told her if she ever wanted to move out, just to give me a months notice in writing. The chain of events are as follows:

6/15 - (Rent is due.) She wrote me a check for rent.

6/17- she e-mails me & tells me that she is moving out on the 7/15.

6/19 - she asks me not to cash her check explaining something was wrong w/her account @ the bank & they were in the process of giving her a new account, once they do, she would write me a new rent check. Trusting her, I didn't cash the check.

7/1- she moves out leaving things behind & promised to come back and pick the rest of her stuff up. I told her to take her time, she had the room through 7/15 since that is how much rent she had paid for.

7/17- (over a full month later) I received a check in the mail from her for half of the rent (she called her bank and canceled the other rent check). She prorated her rent & said she didn't owe me anything else for rent since she wasn't physically living there.

7/22- her stuff is still.

Does she owe me for the other 15 days? And,what do I do with her stuff?

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