Evict For Violation of Lease or Holdover Tenant or Both?

[Kevin L.]

Hey BP Family,

This post is connected to the same disgusting tenant I mentioned in my previous post: Tenant Threatening Police For Showing - COVID-19 / Coronavirus.

The disgusting tenant mentioned, who always pays on time if not early, appears to love collecting garbage in his room and has violated the lease agreement as a result. However, his lease also expires April 30, 2020 or the end of this month and he was notified in December 2019 that his lease would not be renewed. On the other hand, Virginia courts have suspended accepting any new eviction cases until April 26, 2020 as well.

I plan on using a lawyer to see through the whole eviction process but we all know they are a business themselves so my question is, should I even bother starting to attempt to evict him with the lawyer on the basis for violating the lease agreement for his waste/failure to main the premises clause or should I just wait until May 1, 2020 and hope courts are open then and serve him for being a holdover tenant or try evicting him for both?

Does anyone think tenants may actually have a very strong and accepted defense using their state's stay at home order for not relocating anywhere?

Thanks in advance.

-Kevin