breaking lease because of rodent

[cocopuffy]

Me and some classmates rented a lake house in college and we saw our first mouse in October. The landlord gave us some traps and went on his way...over Thanksgiving weekend we caught 27 mice in 2 days. Yepp 27 MICE!!! We had to reuse traps. We would set one and turn around and the trap would go off before we left the area!!! Some of the traps went off and when we opened the cupboard the trap was gone. Somewhere some huge rat is wearing a wooden mousetrap on his ear. Owner tried to blame us and say we were dirty.

[dpederse1]

I am in a similar situation to the first post. My lease is also up on 8/15. Over Thanksgiving a squirrel chewed a hole thru my bedroom ceiling. My landlord had known there were squirrels in the ceiling since October. He didn't do anything. Two weeks after the hole was chewed, he put a bb gun on my steps. Two months later in late jan, he had his maintenance guy put poison in the hole, then patch it up. Awesome, dead animal in my room, trapped inside the wall.


I was so disgusted, I moved out and broke the lease. He will not return my security deposit citing the fact I broke the lease. I gave him thirty day notice, and he had plenty of time to handle the issue beforehand. I am reporting him for the rodent problem, along with substantial building code violations and taking him to court for my deposit back. Will I ever see that money?

[buyerbuyerpantsonfire]

I am renting an old farmhouse in a rural area and we sometimes have field mice in our kitchen. Everyone I talk to in my area has them. They can get into the house through the smallest of spaces. I keep a clean house. I don't think one sighting constitutes an infestation, but I have heard that for every mouse you see there are relatives lurking.

The problems you mention- I've had those in every rental I've ever had. I don't think those breach the warranty of habitability.