a beautiful clean building in Brooklyn, NY.
Ah, yes. I believe I read about that in Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
a beautiful clean building in Brooklyn, NY.
Why do you keep circling back to the carpet, stay on point. which is how does she get rid of the rodents? Nothing has happened with the carpet at this point.
WADR, you're asking for a legal opinion and the internet is a terrible place to get that. Why not encourage your friend to make use of some of the legal help that has been suggested here?
What is WADR?
Yes, it has. The pesky rodents have dug up the carpets in multiple places, as I mentioned in my OP, and the LL is hinting / insinuating that she may have to bear financial responsibility to replace 8-yr-old carpets in that entire unit.
And to answer your question in another post, NO, I did not say she had birdseed and bird poop all over the floor. I said the LL claimed that and that is a falsehood. I know this because I visit her regularly and one of the things that DID bother me is that that poor bird is kept in the closet most of the time. It is also exclusively fed there, so if there was any bird seed that would be in the closet not "all over the carpeted areas of the unit". It's just not fair to the bird, so the fact that they blamed the bird and alleged she was letting it free flight all over the apartment rubbed me the wrong way, even though I do not own that bird.
What is WADR?
I have passed on all of the legal resources mentioned here and the feedback about the bird needing to go to her. Thanks.
When I said nothing has happened with the carpet I meant no one has billed her for replacing the carpet.
It's now a case of she said/they said, right now your being mad and her being mad isn't helping anything. Unless you want to go help steam clean the carpet and apartment and/or rehome the bird yourself I don't think that you are actually helping her at the moment. Or go to HD and buy 25 bucks worth of mousetraps, glue traps and steelwool for her.
Unless you were here the exact time the exterminator was there you don't know what was on the carpet.
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And to answer your question in another post, NO, I did not say she had birdseed and bird poop all over the floor. I said the LL claimed that and that is a falsehood. I know this because I visit her regularly and one of the things that DID bother me is that that poor bird is kept in the closet most of the time. It is also exclusively fed there, so if there was any bird seed that would be in the closet not "all over the carpeted areas of the unit". ...
Pest control apparently showed up a couple of hours ago, again did a "VISUAL INSPECTION" of the unit and then left saying they will talk to maintenance about opening up a work order to fix the laundry vent. Maintenance again denied the laundry vent was the entry way and Property Manager did not respond to my friend's complaint that all that pest control seems to be doing is "visual inspection" of the property aka checking on her housekeeping. No traps were laid today, either because you know... apparently, pest control only looks over the unit but does not have to lay traps or anything.
I truly fail to understand why this is not an issue / problem on the LL's part. Is this LL's way of trying to get her to move?
.... No traps were laid today, either because you know... apparently, pest control only looks over the unit but does not have to lay traps or anything.
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As a landlord of 25 years who have had many tenants, I have dealt with this scenario. This situation is almost certainly the tenant’s fault as a result of poor or non existent housekeeping skills. Children have to be trained to clean up after themselves and the parents have to be constantly vigilant in maintaining a clean place with no food droppings for mice and roaches. I believe that mental illness can play a role. I’ve had tenants with young children who never ever cleaned their bathrooms or anywhere else in the house with no area visible on the floor and remnants of food and food wrappings strewn all over and they were very comfortable living like this. Your friend owes the landlord big time and I definitely see why they want to get rid of her as they should.
This is getting to the root of the problem. Along with other replies, the problem is the OP's friend does not keep a clean place. Mice and other rodents will go where they find food. OP's friend is lucky the landlord has put up with the bird and lack of cleanliness to this point. I agree the landlord will be happy when they move out. Problem tenants, and the situation made worse by local laws that favor problem tenants.
Stop making excuses about being the landlord's problem and legal help to fight the landlord. Clean up the place and the mice will go away. It is no more complicated than that. Getting a cat can help as well, but that may not be a solution with the bird.