Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Virginia
Did I really renew my lease?
My lease expired 10/02 and I chose to go month-to-month while trying to find a new place. At the end of December, I turned a piece of paper in to my leasing office saying that I am interested in signing a new lease. They prepared the lease and returned it to me to sign, effective 2/1. Meanwhile, my car has been broken into in front of my house and I do not feel safe staying here.. I haven�t signed my lease and went in today to give them written notice that I wish to move in 60 days. The lady at the office told me that the paper I signed telling them I would like to have a lease prepared is technically an addendum to the original lease (which has expired) and I am obligated to stay for another year. I know that if i do not sign the lease, but make payments that it technically means I agree with the terms and I'm stuck for another year, but if I do not pay my rent in agreement with the new lease I will be evicted. Also - in anger at the leasing office I told her that if she won't accept my notice to move then she will have to evict me because I have pets in a ''no-pet'' building. It was probably a stupid thing to say in the heat of argument, but if they indeed do it, what kind of records will be kept of the eviction?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Did I really renew my lease?
Whether or not the piece of paper you signed "saying that you were interested in signing
a new lease" has been properly construed as to its legal import by "the lady at the office"(who, presumably is not currently licensed to practice law),is, in all probability, a question of fact to be answered by the trier of fact who, at some future date, may be required to rule upon this issue.
In the meantime, however, if you're terribly determined to in fact flee these premises, you may want to arrange a consultation with an attorney knowledgeable in such matters who can review all of the relevant paperwork, including the questionable coda to the lease which the aforesaid lady in the office claims is binding upon your person------and, who then, hopefully, can render a reasonably reliable prediction as to possible legal consequences which might befall you were you to up and quit as if you now were
seized of a mere month to month tenancy.
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