My question involves real estate located in the State of: Virginia
My mother owns a property and is about to sell it in Virginia and there was a company who had their equipment up on the top of the hill behind the building on her property, and they stored their equipment on her property since that was the only available land in the area to store it. She took $200 for 4 months of storage, which I found a bit cheap, the guys ended up tearing up her new gravel drive-way, they hit a small storage building she had up there and broke it a bit, they tore down a lot of trees to get to another property through hers, but never replanted any trees as far as I know, they tore the property up behind the building making it muddy and ruining the ground and leaving behind tons of trash and even a huge ton barrel that is impossible to move and we're not even sure why they had it there, they refused to lock up the property when they would leave and were very immature about the whole process and now they're refusing to pay my mom for all the damage they caused, she spent over $800 on that new gravel driveway. She was planning on suing the company for days of work she missed and gas for checking on the property, suing them for tearing down trees and not replacing them, ruining her gravel drive-way, and hitting her building and refusing to pay for it, she was hoping to get around $4-5 grand for all the stress they caused, but a friend of ours ( not an attorney ) said that she could not sue if she sold the property, which she is in the process of doing now, is this true? or can she still take the company to small claims court for devaluing the property and causing all the stress?

