Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Virginia

I am on a military deployment and one of my roomates caught part of the house on fire which caused a good amount of damage to the house. She is not on the lease. Are the people listed on the lease responsible for damages or is the person who caused the damages responsible? I'm not sure if it matters, but the leasers are both foward deployed active military out of the country at this time.


Asked on 2/23/11, 1:26 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

It will be up to the landlord/owner of the premises to determine whom s/he

wants to charge civilly for the damages caused by the fire. (If it were

me, I would name all occupants as defendants and even, perhaps, the leasees who were not there if they were complicit in violating the terms of the lease by allowing this fire-causing person to occupy this house without the landlord's consent and in violation of the terms of the lease).

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Answered on 2/24/11, 8:39 am


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