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Mar 2, 2004 2:26 PM
Click Here to send this discussion to a friend| Anyone ever regret purchasing a property with extensive mice dropping evidence? Were you really able to get rid of them permanently or did your tenants call you all the time on this? --64.12.96.74 |
| If the property is worthwhile cash flow wise, the extermination will be worth it. You need to seal off all the methods the little dears use to gain entrance. Keep in mind that their bodies flatten to slither in so even the most minute openings can be their doorways. (If the house has a good foundation and not sitting right on the soil you can accomplish this). Once these areas are sealed off .... use your favorite method of extermination. Traps are my favorite because their little carcasses are right out there for me to pitch out rather than smelling up the house while their earthly remains are decomposing in the walls. It may take a month, but like I said ... you have to determine how good a deal this is. We once had a home that we purchased with a family living in it that had been there for a great many years. These people never closed their doors ... summer or winter it seemed. Kids were constantly running in or running out and I think the parents really didn't give a hoot or had just lost control. When we evicted them and got control of the home from them ... we had to fight the giant mouse problem. The house was tight and we didn't have to make any major repairs on the outside, but that experience gave me a "nose" for mouse. I can smell one at 50 paces. I am better than my cats. It was disgusting and I was sure that we were going to wipe out all the traps in the stores throughout the entire county. We were working on the place anyway so it wasn't as if we lost any more time, but every morning when we arrived, there were more victims' bodies to remove. Haven't had a problem in the place since and that was about 15 years ago. --64.7.186.202 |
| I bought a new house in San Antonio, TX back in 1989 that was built on a large field. The mice problem was so bad that you could hear them crawling up the walls even during the daytime. In fact you could hit any wall with your fist and hear them scattering. I called the exterminator and after numerous calls he returned my money back. I finally solved the problem by getting a cat. Within 2 months they were gone. This cat was a pro, mice butts and tails all over the place oh my! --209.112.182.89 |
| No big deal here, some decon and some traps and a weeks time the problem should be gone. --205.188.209.16 |
| I had mice nest (and clog up) my drier-exhaust vent on my condo. The vent was nearly inaccessible from the exterior of the condo (association denied my doing so). So we had to open the ductwork from the attic. We euthanized them before opening up the duct by removing the vent hose and spraying starter fluid in there with the help of the exhaust side of a wet-vac. A few years later, we solved the same problem again but this time with birds. That did it! I went up there without the associations permission and put up steel fabric. Havn't had a problem since. --199.233.80.161 |
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I bought a foreclored 4 unit three years ago and it had mice and I knew it. The place was so beautiful that I figured that I would fight to get them out. I was so afraid of them that they would run me out but I got over that I would fight back. The exterminators did not work so I took matters into my own hands. I patched all holes, THEY HATE MOUTH BALLS so I put those down as well as glue boards. Currently we are mice free. --12.33.189.81 |
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City mice are harder to get rid of than country mice IMO. I used all of tricks to get rid of them (peanut butter on traps, meat on traps, glue boards, poison) and nothing worked. One day i bought some stinky parmesean cheese (the expensive stuff), after i baited the traps with that goodness the mice just came flocking to my traps. Within days they we're all dead and gone! I hate mice! --69.2.246.10 |
| LOL - It's funny, people have all the ideas, for trapping mice, and what worked above? The guy who used chese. It always works in all the cartoons, why not in real life? --199.233.80.161 |
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Mice can crawl through an opening 1/4 inch wide, and rats through 1/2 inch. I had both in my crawl space during cold weather, from wher the mice got into t he walls and came out through a crack in the kitchen stove flue pipe. Found out they got into the garage, then entered the crawl space through a crack around the hot-water pipes. A little Quikcrete around the hot water pipe along with some traps and peanut butter quickly took care of the critters. BTW - a mouse could run right over my lazy Himalayan kitty and she wouldn't wake up. --216.239.160.71 |
| A place purchased without mice will simply be a place with mice once you put tenants in it anyway.......... ;-) --167.107.191.217 |