Virginia Rent Relief delays

[Kimberly Weatherford]

Have any Virginia landlords received payment from the Rent Relief program since the switch to gov2go in December? We have two tenants whose applications were marked complete Feb 1st and Feb 28th respectively, and each time I call I’m simply told they’re “under review”. Various agents have escalated the cases or forwarded them to a supervisor but nothing seems to happen. I’m aware that under the law, we are entitled to evict anyway because the tenant wasn’t approved within 45 days, but I don’t want to evict just because the state is being slow. That’s not the tenant’s fault. Still, we are small time landlords (3 properties), and can’t afford to continue to pay all the expenses of the properties with only a small fraction of the rent coming in indefinitely.  Are there any options available to get the payments through or other ways for our tenants to get rental assistance?