My tenant who had a dog just moved out, What are the things I need to do before the next tenant moves-in?

[spencgr]

Originally Posted by leighland

If I rented your place with my baby, who crawls on the floor and eats stuff, I would sue your a$$ to high heaven should she get a tick within the apartment.
Thoroughly clean your place as if you are protecting your baby girl from Lyme Disease.
And I want to know while looking at your place that previous owners had pets there. ( I always ask anyway)

You would absolutely lose that lawsuit, unless you could prove there was a tick infestation that the landlord knew about and then took no action. Merely having a pet in the apartment with a previous tenant is not proof.

There is no way to legally prove how one tick entered a home.

[HokieFan]

Originally Posted by spencgr

You would absolutely lose that lawsuit, unless you could prove there was a tick infestation that the landlord knew about and then took no action. Merely having a pet in the apartment with a previous tenant is not proof.

There is no way to legally prove how one tick entered a home.

Yep! Heck, the tick could have attached itself to you and you brought it in! ("you" as in leighland)

[robbobobbo]

Originally Posted by airjay75

I've always thought the way to treat fleas and ticks is by treating the animal itself not the house. I don't think fleas and ticks are really the type of pests that are interested in being in a house without warm bodies also present. But, I'm no pest control expert so I don't know. I could see deducting money from their deposit if you visit the house and find a pest problem of some sort but asking them to professionally treat for fleas and ticks strikes me initially as a bit unusual. But, like I said, I'm not pest control expert. I can say that in the last 2 apartments that I rented and also had a dog, I was never asked to pay for flea and tick treatment. Pet deposits, pet rent, cleaning the carpets, yes. Pest control, no.

Understanding the Flea Life Cycle | petMD

There are four stages in the life cycle of a flea: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. Depending on the environmental temperature and humidity levels, the total life cycle will take anywhere from a couple weeks to many months.

Flea eggs land in the carpet. They can lie dormant for a long time if it's cold, and then hatch when it's warmer. Even after hatching, there is a stage where the flea is in a cocoon.

The cocoon protects the pupae for several days or weeks before the adult flea emerges. If environmental conditions are not right for emergence, the cocoon can protect the developing flea for months, and in some cases, years.

Cocoons have a sticky outer coating that allows them to hide deep in the carpeting and not be easily removed by light vacuuming or sweeping. The cocoon also serves to protect the developing adults from chemicals.

It's not unusual at all for a lease allowing pets to either require the out-going tenant to get the place professionally cleaned and treated, or state upfront that there is a non-refundable pet deposit for this reason.


I once lived in a group house that had several cats and one summer, a flea problem. It was quite an ordeal to get the place down to no fleas jumping on your legs.

[litebrite]

Will you give your future tenants a background check or a credit check?

[Old Guard]

If I were you the first thing I would do is get rid of the dog.