Re: Tenant wants to break lease due to ant problem

Re: Tenant wants to break lease due to ant problem by Anonymous on August 11, 2011 @02:45

Ive been in the tenant situation and before this I would have always agreed that it was your renters problem. However after living in the home where I did, I now have another perspective. Are house was RAIDED win ants. They were coming in through the baseboards jn places there was never ever food (ie 2 of the bedroom closets). We kept our house immaculately clean (we had a house cleaner come 2xs) a week and spent couple hundred dollars over time on sprays & such. We reached our braking point when we realized that the ants were eating through clothes and putting holes all over very expensive items.... Such as my Grandmothers wedding dress:( I told our landlord it needed to be sprayed but he refused because doesn't believe in chemicals and that it's our fault we were too messy (so so far from true!). We left the house that week and took our landlord to small claims court. We brought pics of ants, receipts from the cleaning place that cleans r house, receipts of every penny spent on ant spray, and every txt/email between landlord and ourselves (all stating in one way or another it's not his problem). Guess what? Not only did the judge rule in our favor by giving us back our full deposit, he also demanded that he pay us back for $ spent on raid, ect., AND we got our money back for rent for the last 2 weeks in the house when the ants were the worse. We got back way more than we asked for.

So... Moral of the story, it may my them being dirty that's attracting the ants. To save ur butt in case it is nothing they were doing u need to pay the money to spray the place. If anythig still does occur then at Kearny showed u tried to mitigate the problem It's by far ur best option.

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