Q: Fixed term lease that ends June 2021. Can the landlord break the lease to sell and ask us to move this spring?
We have lived here for 5 years, signing a new lease one time. Our current lease is up in 16 months but the landlord called and asked us if we would move early so they could sell the house this summer instead of next. Can they even do that? We have not broken the terms of the lease.
A: Under Virginia law, the existing residential lease remains binding and in effect if the current owner/landord sells the Property to a different party. Based on what you indicated that the "landlord asked us if....." it sounds like there is no demand but only a request being made by the landlord.
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