Help! i have mice and my landlord says shes not responsible. my home is very clean it is amoblie home?

I am a landlord. Call the department of Neighborhood Services. They should put you in touch with building inspection. If your rental is infested with rodents it is the landlord's responsibility to take care of the problem. make sure to completely document your experiences with her (she sounds like a real *****) and keep them in a safe place. if she should try and charge you for the exterminator or evict you she can be held liable. It is illeagal to force tenants to do basic maintenance to your property or penalise them for calling building inspection to force you to be a decent landlord. Make sure to ask building inspection and possibly a real estate lawyer (there are legal aid places that are free and deal with landlord/tenant issues) about the what the laws are in your city. Usually if building inspection issues a citation she has two weeks to fix the issue or she can be fined. If an inspector doesn't return to your house and the issue is unresolved call them again for another inspection. before they come it would be best if you did not clean up any dead mice or dropping so you have proof of infestation. Some building inspectors are real chumps and don't like to do their jobs. If that doesn't work go to a free legal aid place and sue!Help! i have mice and my landlord says shes not responsible. my home is very clean it is amoblie home?
You could both be responsible. The house may have places that allow mice to get in. You may be leaving things out that attract them. Don't mean to imply that your house isn't clean, but very little astonishes me any more when it comes to what tenants do. You don't say where the mice are--are they in your kitchen cupboards or where? Your landlord has a rather poor attitude and should at least come over and have a look at the problem, but it would sure help if you studied the problem a bit yourself. You're there all the time, the landlord is not. If you hear mice, notice where. If you find droppings somewhere, see if you can figure out how the mice got there. They can get through a hole 1/4 inch wide. One thing you could do which is cheap and easy is to have a look at wherever pipes come into the house--kitchen sink, bathroom, hot water heater. If there are any gaps at all, take some tinfoil and stuff the gaps with it as tightly as you can.Help! i have mice and my landlord says shes not responsible. my home is very clean it is amoblie home?
In a mobile home, there are usually holes where the plumbing comes in... Definitely block the holes with something solid (Not cardboard) that the mice can't chew through. (Spray foam insulation works well) And use mousetraps or the poison blocks that others here have mentioned. Once you kill off the mice that have gotten in, you should be fine.
i have such a fear of mice. i feel so sorry for you.





she probably isn't responsable, unless it is a huge mouse infestation.





you need to find where they are coming in. if you don't find the hole, then you can trap forever, they will keep coming back.





be sure to clean up all the mouse droppings, wipe with bleach water or something strong too. they will come back to the scent or leave a trail for their friends.





get some traps, be sure to only put a smear of peanut butter or cheese on them, otherwise you will be feeding them, not catching them. they also don't like moth balls, but be sure the smell won't give you a headache or anything.





good luck. i hope that she is made to get rid of them!





take care. sd
I don't know, a few mice really isn't the landlord's problem. Do you expect him to come over, set traps, and then remove the dead critters every day? Unless you are being inundated with mice, I suggest you buy some traps and handle the problem. If you have a true infestation, then the landlord should bring in an exterminator.
go all around the house and check for holes..like under the sink pipes, plumbing areas...buy the kind of mice poison that is sold in green blocks, break them up and throw them in all holes, the cover the holes..throw some under the house if that is your type of housing...if apartment, then thats all you can do..the mice will run and die...works for me, everytime they cut down the fields, but it will last a year or two..
I agree with Blossom, but I just wanted to add: mousetraps are cheap. Set them and kill them. And if you don't want the mousetraps, buy that Defcon stuff. They eat it and it makes them thirsty so they go outside to look for water, and then they die.


I rent as well. And generally, I only contact the landlord when I have MAJOR issues.
If you rent the space but own the mobile home it's your responsibility. If you're renting the mobile home as well, the owner is responsible just as she would be if you were renting an apartment.
i think i remembered hearing something about a landlord being responsible for the condition of the property being used
If you rent, then it's your responsibility, why in the world would you expect your landlord to be responsible ?
get a cat ,the landlord will love you....