[blackgrrl23]

Hello there :)

I signed a lease on a nice 1 bedroom apartment for my son and I about 6 weeks ago. I did not move in it yet because the lease had not ended yet on our current apartment and I got the new place on a special (very hard to get into these apartments and I applied at the last minute and got in with 2 months rent free! So July and 1/2 of August is free... )

My ex- was having a hard time and got kicked out of his prior living situation so out of kindness I let him stay in the new apartment until my lease was up in the old (I move out of the old place saturday). He has been there for only 2 weeks and now insists he stays and helps pay rent (he has no job and has been EXTREMELY unstable financially over the past 4 years... decent credit but can't seem to keep a job). What would be the simplest process to evict him seeing as 1) he is not on the lease 2) the apartment only allows 2 occupants (my son and myself) and if he stayed that would be 3 and 3) he is not helping me out financially with anything nor has paid one bill in the house.

I would simply call him for trespassing but he has a lot of belongings in there now (mostly clothes and small electronics) ad if the cops kicked him out, he has no other place to go nor nowhere to store his belongings. I would be more than happy to put his stuff in a locked storage unit for him and pay that rent, but I don't want him residing with us. My parents suggested changing the locks and placing his stuff in storage, getting him a cheap hotel room for a night or 2 and leave a note with the storage key/hotel room key taped to the door and call the cops on him for trespassing should he get overly obnoxious with knocking on the door and disturbing the neighbors. My dad said per VA law he can't even have "squatter's rights" unless he resided there for more than 30 days or had mail going there, which he does not have. Of course the sooner I get him and his belongings out the better, but I want to make sure legally what I am doing will fly. He is bipolar so trying to reason with him will result either in him getting extra-upset and crying and causing a scene or him getting angry and possibly verbally abusing me for his own shortcomings.

ANy advice welcome... also keep in mind he has no job, so I would have to plan a way to get him out of the apartment for at least 2-3 hours so I can move his stuff out/have the locks changed while he is gone. Any suggestions welcome...

[XenoSapien]

He's not on the lease, plain and simple. Let the property manager know that he is not on the lease, and request security to help in removing him. If your property does not have security, call the non-emergency line of your towns' police department, and request assistance to removing someone in your home who is not on the lease.

XenoSapien