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Mice don't usually carry the hantivirus.. It is actually quite rare.
In all reality, mice and rats that are not tame fear humans and will run off. The odds of them biting are slim unless you corner and try to pick them up--which I doubt anyone is going to do.
That makes the odds of someone getting the hantivirus from them slim to none, unless they are going to live in the mice poop. Would you do that? Would anyone that wants to see the place do that? Just make sure you wash up after being there and you should be fine.
Also, if you tear down the house, the animals are likely to go away on their own. It is just convinent for them to live there because it is run down and they can enter and exit without a problem. I'm surprised that mice and rats are all that are living there, if it is that run down. You may also have some bird problems and other, larger rodents, not to mention insects.
yes but in todays legal bent society, its always best to caution on the side of safety. Last thing I would want is a buyer coming back claiming, yeah I knew there were rats there.. but didnt realise there were THOUSANDS of them..
yes but in todays legal bent society, its always best to caution on the side of safety. Last thing I would want is a buyer coming back claiming, yeah I knew there were rats there.. but didnt realise there were THOUSANDS of them..
You disclose a vermin infestation. That makes a suit of vermin virtually impossible. You disclose a hanta-virus possibility.
This is all basics. One does not abandon property because it has problems. You simply sell it with full disclosure. And in some circumstances you may include that disclosure in the actual contract.
About 11 years ago we made a telephone appointment to meet a realtor at an empty house we wanted to see in New Salem, Mass. She was very nice older lady and a bit of a hot ticket. When we got to the front door, she inserted her key, unlocked the lock, turned the door knob, then paused, looked right at us and said, "There's just one thing...it's got bats, and plenty of them!"
Well, when we stepped inside we saw she wasn't joking. It was a center stairway colonial and the bat guano was pouring down all over the stairwell walls, maybe two inches thick, from the second floor. The smell was incredible, a sickly sweet smell I'll never forget. The second floor itself was quite an experience. It was caked thick with years of accumulation of bat guano.
We didn't buy the house but someone did and renovated it quite nicely. We've been laughing about it for years.
Well, when we stepped inside we saw she wasn't joking. It was a center stairway colonial and the bat guano was pouring down all over the stairwell walls, maybe two inches thick, from the second floor. The smell was incredible, a sickly sweet smell I'll never forget. The second floor itself was quite an experience. It was caked thick with years of accumulation of bat guano.
We didn't buy the house but someone did and renovated it quite nicely. We've been laughing about it for years.
Family in Law owned a great huge Victorian in rural CN ner the RI border. Had bats. Damn thing was 4 stories with coupalas and all that. Had bats that penetrated the top floor.
Problem was getting rid of them. They had taken over the attic but only rarely ventured into the habital area. When they had a house full the upper bedrooms were populated with the young armed with tennis racquets. You just whapped any old bat that happened along.
Eventually they sold the joint or it got foreclosed...depending on who you ask. It was like 15K to get rid of the bats...they had to put up external scaffolding to get into the attic...
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