Q: I live in Virginia and my landlord claims he smelt pot coming from my apartment when i wasn’t even home. what can i do ?
I don’t have any pot in the apartment nor have we smoked in here can he evict us? we have also received complaints of our baby crying from our neighbors and we have been threatened to be evicted twice. my landlord claimed in writing that my neighbor said they smelled pot from our apartment but when i confronted them they claim they never said that.
A: You should send a letter or an email to your landlord and dispute the claims that you were smoking pot in the premises. If the landlord brings a court action against you, the landlord has the burden of proof by a preponderance of the evidence in order to win his case. You can ask your neighbor to be a witness to testify to the lack of truth of the landlord's claims.
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