Roach Problem in Apartment

[Mary Ann789]

The problem with apartments is your place can be spotless but if your neighbors are pigs, you're going to share their pest problem.

[Kim in FL]

Originally Posted by Mary Ann789

The problem with apartments is your place can be spotless but if your neighbors are pigs, you're going to share their pest problem.

Yup. My inlaws dealt with this in a highrise apartment they lived in. Their neighbors didn't believe in killing living creatures, so they infested the whole building. Nasty.

[Opsimathia]

Call the local health department and report it. I had to do it at an old rental I was in. They forced the LL to treat the entire building.

[bentlebee]

It depends on your lease. If pest control is for the tenant to take care of than you have to pay for it. In most our leases it is for the tenant to take care of pest control and they all have signed for it and prior to moving in we have made sure it was treated and no bugs were there.

Since we live in Florida you can always come across a little bug when entering the property but that is not what the OP is talking about.

It will be hard to prove if the tenants brought in the roaches or they were there or came from a neighboring apartment, etc.

We have it in the lease as the responsibility for the tenant as well as bed bugs since we know that they are not there on move in and can always be moved in by anybody living at a property.

I have seen court case where 4-5 roaches or other bugs were seen and the judge ruled against the tenants for breaking the lease for that, it needs to be a real issue and LL responsibility to take care of it.