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You better take that cat for a test drive before you bring one home. When it comes to bug huntin' mine is useless and they know. Lucky for him he's adorable.
You better take that cat for a test drive before you bring one home. When it comes to bug huntin' mine is useless and they know. Lucky for him he's adorable.
A couple years back I had waterbugs show up all of a sudden. The dog and cat teamed up to kill them: cat caught and immobilized them, then dog killed them and broke them apart, AND if I didn't intervene both of them ATE the bug ... YECH! Thankfully the waterbugs didn't last long.
Just wanted to point out that my sister and dad live in Westchester in two separate areas and they deal with roaches, spiders, sliverfish and mice... I live in Brooklyn, small one bedroom... and (thank God) don't have that problem...but I also have two cats.
My sister lives in a fairly new building, while my dad lives in an older building. My sister has neighbors that leave their garbage bags outside their door. I don't know much about my dad's neighbors.
I would think that a newer construction bldg would have less chance of roach problems because of fewer possible cracks between floor boards, small leaks (roaches like moisture) etc.
Also pay attention to how the areas of the bldg such as the basement are kept. If they seem spotless, this is a good indication that there might be less chance of roaches.
And, I said this in another thread - the bugs people need to be concerned about these days are bedbugs, not roaches.
Newer or New Construction is the only way to avoid this but of course you are going to pay dearly for this finanically as newer construction can end up renting for double in some instances as compared to a similar apartment that is much older.
Well, some people might think making 100K-plus at 30 represents an awfully big chunk of good fortune! And that such a person should also get to pay some dues, accept their share of suffering, etc., which one surely would get the chance to do in NYC. No way to live an antiseptic, hermetically sealed life here. Maybe that's possible in Toronto ... folks always come back saying one thing, "It's sooo clean." But never anything else!
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Newer or New Construction is the only way to avoid this
New/er construction means nothing, vermin-wise. A condo went up in my neighborhood about 12-15 years ago. Residents include a partner in the building's development firm and a number of well-known names, including Regis Philbin, Natasha Richardson & Liam Neeson, and Jon Bon Jovi. The first buyers were greeted by neighbors of the four- and six-legged variety who had moved in before them.
not living in Manhattan because of fear of roaches, mice, etc. I live in an 1890 walk-up and used to have a roach problem but haven't seen any since 2000 when the exterminators starting using a gel formula that gets rid of them. My building is not rich at all but have a sign up sheet for an exterminator that comes once a month. Most people don't sign up.
I also recommend having a cat or two. Only time I ever had a mouse was when the building across the street was gutted to make a high school. I didn't see it, but I heard squeaks when one of my cats caught it and didn't leave any remains. Ugh!!! I don't like mice either (inside my dwelling).
As we say in this corner of the world, hey, you never know! I live in a large apartment house on Ocean Parkway, and there aren't any roaches or mice in my building. The occasional silverfish, but they just don't seem as disgusting as roaches!
I've also never seen roaches in my pre-war building....or, before that, in the post-war building in which I lived.
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