Arlington County’s housing and rental assistance programs seek to help tenants facing eviction.
Contact your landlord as soon as possible. Ask if partial payments are accepted until the rent is paid in full. If so, write out a payment plan that reflects what you can afford. For additional help with rent and expenses, contact 703-228-1300 or dhs@arlingtonva.us.
What You Can Do
Talk to your landlord immediately to try to resolve the problem. Find out why you are being evicted. The law does not require the landlord to tell you why, unless the reason is unpaid rent. If you are being evicted for unpaid rent, you must give your landlord a reasonable schedule for paying past as well as future rent. See if this applies to you:
Appear in court unless the Landlord cancels the summons in writing. You will lose your case if you do not go to court on the date on the Unlawful Detainer. You are not required to have an attorney, but the landlord will have an attorney in court.