Legal Question in Personal Injury in Virginia

Re: What is Trespass under VA law?

I would have to see the terms of your agreement (the Bylaws) I suspect you may have a claim. Please contact our consumer law attorney at 703-777-7319 (Thorick Dino) or Thomas Robinett at 540-722-3383

Re: What is Trespass under VA law?

If your Association's bylaws say as you claim, send the intruding one a certified letter, return receipt requested, citing the applicable bylaws and recounting his alleged recent violations and putting him on formal notice that any such future intrusions will be considered illegal entries and, complained of, accordingly, to the local police as trespasses to your private property.

Re: What is Trespass under VA law?

Bear in mind that a "trespass" means entering without consent or more precisely after you tell someone to leave or not to enter. Therefore if you don't tell the manager to stop barging in to your home, there is no "trespass." One of the things you have to prove to prove a trespass is that you told someone not to enter your property. So if you don't say anything you don't have a claim for trespass.

A condo is not an apartment. You own it. But the manager is acting like it is an apartment that is still owned by his company.

Because you don't want to make an enemy, you might start with a letter asking for clarification. Talk about the section of the bylaws that you are reading and say that you understood you were buying a condominium as real property that you own, as our own house, and you don't understand why the management is entering without asking as if this were an apartment that you don't own.