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Originally Posted by McLovin
Yes, it says “written” is not required to satisfy a “notice.”
But it does not say “steps reasonably calculated etc” satisfies a “WRITTEN notice.”
There’s a difference.
I don’t know anything about that statute, but that definition reads as a definition of a “notice.”
My guess elsewhere in that statute there is a separate definition of a “written notice.” (Like, a written notice may be a hard copy writing, an electronic mail, etc. But some kind of writing).
But it’s not going to say a written notice may be satisfied by giving an oral notice, or taking steps reasonably calculated to inform the other person” etc.
If that were the case, written notice provisions in contracts would be meaningless.
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Here's the whole thing.
https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacodepopularnames/virginia-residential-landlord-and-tenant-act/
What I posted is the entirety of anything pertaining to Notice.
Now it is specific to Landlord / Tenant notices in the State of VA but OP is the LL and buyer is his tenant.
I'm not an attorney but in my line of work we have a saying, "we start every relationship with a handshake and end it with a **** you".
I've been party to enough litigation over the years to have learned that the outcome often has nothing to do with who was truly right but rather who had the better attorney that day.
Be honest, if the buyer were your client you wouldn't try to argue my point? Or can you say for certain no attorney wouldn't?
And that's the point. Lee doesn't know the intricacies of what constitutes Notice in AZ and without competent council may be opening himself up for trouble should the buyer decide he has been wronged and finds some ambulance chaser who will happily take the buyers money to make Lee's life miserable.
Lee is trying to be a Mensch and I admire and respect that but there is that other saying, no good deed goes unpunished.
Lee should STFU and let the buyer dig his own grave.