Thank you Rod --173.48.xxx.xxx

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By the way: I have this bridge in Brooklyn for sale. --99.103.xxx.xxx

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sounds like the tenant is the PEST!!!! Eliminate. --99.103.xxx.xxx

So....what does your lease say? --173.19.x.xxx

You spent $1000 on 3 exterminators,2 told you there were no mice so I assume the majority of that money was spent on the exterminator that is related to her and you are asking if you were scammed? yes you were scammed,if you couldn't figure this out on your own before the bill got this high I think you should consider selling the property and getting out of the landlord business --72.231.xxx.xxx

If the exterminator put it in writing -no mice- add to next rent cycle - they can recover from the relative or be forced into an eviction for unpaid rent.. --76.188.xxx.xx

Are you allowing them to take these servieskout of the rent? And yes there are fake mice, they are plastic. Chemicals won't make them go away. --99.203.xx.xx

I would not have used her relative at all. Mice can be hard to locate and saying there are "no mice" is impossible. I have a couple of them in my house and can't find them. I can hear them sometimes and have traps out. The other morning I heard one scratching in a cabinet. I sealed the doors after putting a glue trap in there with food on it. I did not catch the mouse. There is no way to say that there are "NO MICE". So assume there are mice. If she has no pets or children then get some mouse bait and put it in a floor level cabinet. If there are pets or children you can't do that as it will make them sick or kill them. In that case use some snap traps in paper bags on the floor turned toward the wall. Tell her to call you when there is a mouse in the trap and then go get it or instruct her to close the bag and toss it. --73.178.xxx.xx

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Mice can be hard to see, but their poop is not. Do you have mouse poop in the lower kitchen cabinets and under the stove and refrigerator? --98.146.xxx.xxx

What Rathdrum is talking about is they leave trails of black rice, tbey love snack food left out, Close the picnic basket. --76.188.xxx.xx

RathdrumGal, are you asking about my mice? No none of that. It's not an infestation. I think one or two have come in due to rainy weather. I had an infestation in another house and learned from that how to detect and deal. I was live trapping them and putting them outside there. I put out 32 mice or the same one 32 times. I had one living under a potholder in my cabinet drawer. I would open the drawer and she would hop up on the side of the drawer and watch me then get back under her potholder. I started taking them a few miles away and releasing them. Now I have the final solution for them. Sorry for them but I have to protect my dogs and they carry leptospirosis which can be fatal and requires constant treatment to make it not fatal. --73.178.xxx.xx

Ally -- how do you kill the mice? My cat occasionally brings in live mice, and the sits back and laughs at us while we go wild trying to catch it. They usually end up in an upside down jar with tight fitting lid. I used to freeze them to kill them, but I no longer have a second freezer now that we downsized. I would like to be as humane as possible. --98.146.xxx.xxx

RathdrumGal, I have been going thru this with a friend since she got a kitten, now cat and he brings them in and plays with them crippling them and they crawl away then croak and stink, my normal pest control source has been out of the covered stick traps much of the summer so I wandered into the competitor who explained the glue has just been revamped so you can loosen a child or pet with alcohol and the new ones are twice the length of the old style, now the cat can not pull out the mouse from the -tent- shape, look for the longer tent stick traps, ladies like this cause they don't have to touch the critter, just put into a ziplock bag and out to the trash. --76.188.xxx.xx