When Your Landlord Can Enter Your Home
In Virginia, your landlord can't enter your rental home whenever they feel like it. Unless there's an emergency, they need to give you 72 hours' notice. You also have the right to say no in some situations or to ask them to come at another time.
Your landlord cannot enter your unit without your consent, unless it’s an emergency. But you cannot withhold consent if there’s a good reason your landlord needs to come in. Your landlord should not abuse the right of access or use it to harass you. Except in an emergency, a landlord must give a tenant notice of intent to enter and enter only at reasonable times. Unless it is an emergency, a landlord must give a tenant at least 72 hours’ advance notice.
Eviction Defense Center (opens in a new window)
The Eviction Defense Center is a project of the Virginia Poverty Law Center (VPLC). Especially for tenants who do not get direct help from their local Legal Aid, we provide crucial information and simple, effective legal tools that tenants can use to understand the law and defend their rights in court.